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0:00Annotations allow you to communicate
0:01your drawings more clearly. They share
0:03your thinking process, explain hidden or
0:06unclear information, and provide
0:08specific detail about distances,
0:10properties, and types. In this video,
0:12I'll walk you through all eight
0:13annotation tools in Rayon.
0:16The annotation toolkit can be found at
0:18the bottom in your toolbar. And here,
0:21you'll be able to see a list of your
0:22annotation tools and their shortcuts
0:24alongside. You can also use the command
0:26line, which allow you to find these
0:28annotations, too. Each one has a
0:30specific job, but knowing when to use
0:32them will make a real difference in the
0:34detail you communicate in your drawings.
0:36First up is the dimension tool. So, the
0:38dimension works in a few ways. You are
0:40able to either draw a singular dimension
0:42or a chain of dimensions, and they can
0:44be toggled here. You also have the
0:46option of drawing a single instance or a
0:48loop instance. And to place your
0:50dimension, it's really simple in that
0:51you click one point, click the other,
0:54drag down to get your offset, and here
0:56you have your dimension. To do a chain
0:58of dimensions, you would do a very
0:59similar process, but just continue
1:01clicking along the elements
1:04to get your dimensions. You can equally
1:06type in distances and angles to define
1:09your dimensions, too. Now, once you've
1:11drawn your dimensions, you'll notice
1:12that when you select them and head to
1:14the right-hand side, you have your style
1:16panel. Now, here is where you can manage
1:18all of your styles from the text color
1:20[music] to the font to the line stroke
1:23to the end points. Here, you manage the
1:26way that your dimensions are
1:27communicated. So, you can change the
1:28font size, you can work through the
1:30different font styles, you can adjust
1:33the stroke
1:34and the stroke color. I personally quite
1:36like the dotted extensions for the
1:38dimensions.
1:39And changing the end pieces are also
1:41quite nice if you want to change it to a
1:42circle, square, or you want to change to
1:46a kind of cross like this, which is also
1:48quite a nice touch in the drawings.
1:49Similarly, you can adjust the size of
1:51those end points, and you have other
1:53options of changing a head to a block,
1:54which I'll talk about in a moment. And
1:57finally, you can add a background or
1:59border. I think a background's quite
2:00nice if you've got a floor finish where
2:02the dimensions are clashing a little
2:03bit. Adding that background is quite
2:05nice for all of your annotations to just
2:08make them pop and read a little bit more
2:09clearer. You can also edit what your
2:11dimensions are measuring after drawing
2:13them
2:14>> [music]
2:14>> by just editing and pulling these
2:16toggles. And what's really important is
2:18to make sure that your dimensions are
2:20communicating the right unit and scale.
2:22So, the units for this model canvas is
2:23currently meters. But, I personally like
2:25to work in millimeters, and particularly
2:27at this scale. And so, you can adjust
2:29and change these here on the right-hand
2:30side.
2:31>> [music]
2:31>> But, when you select your dimensions,
2:32you can also manage your units,
2:34precision, and suffix being communicated
2:36here. And you can adjust the precision,
2:39the decimal place. You can decide to
2:41remove the suffix if you want to. I
2:43personally quite like having it on to
2:45make it clear. And you can also
2:47customize the same for angles, which
2:48I'll show you in a minute. Now, once
2:50you're happy with how your dimensions
2:51look, you can now save this as a style.
2:54If you head to the right-hand side,
2:55click the plus button.
2:57Give that style a name. We're going to
2:58call it dimensions one. The reason why
3:00this is great is when you draw your next
3:02dimension, you have the option of
3:04picking a style.
3:06And so, you can assign that style that
3:07you've just created to that next
3:09dimension. In this case, you can either
3:11pick style or you can actually find and
3:14navigate your style using these four
3:15dots.
3:17And because this is now a saved style,
3:19if you make any changes to that style,
3:20for example, change the text color, we
3:23could change the font, we could change
3:25some of the line strokes, and it will
3:26apply across all of those elements with
3:28that style assigned to it. There is a
3:30tutorial video going in much more detail
3:32about styles, so make sure you check
3:34that one out. Now, below styles, you
3:36also have properties. Here, you can
3:38adjust the orientation. You can also
3:40adjust the offset. We can change this to
3:43300, for example, and that just defines
3:45the offset from the wall. You can also
3:47manually control this by dragging your
3:50dimensions up and down. You also have
3:52the option to transform. Now, this is
3:54particularly useful where you might have
3:56a smaller dimension where the text is
3:58clashing a little bit with your
3:59dimension lines. So, what you can do is
4:01you can select that dimension, head to
4:03transform, and I'm going to pull the Y
4:06offset off by, let's say, 50 mm. And
4:09you'll see that that will just pull the
4:11text slightly away from those dimension
4:13lines, which just makes them breathe a
4:15little bit better. You can also adjust
4:16the scale of that dimension if you're
4:18working at 1:2 or 1: 50. And the last
4:21thing to talk about with dimensions is
4:22that your dimensions will automatically
4:24link with geometry. And if you head to
4:25your preferences, you can make sure that
4:27this automation is turned on.
4:30And as a demonstration, I'm going to
4:31show you how if you don't have a linked
4:33dimension, [music] this is how you can
4:35link it. And to do this, head to your
4:37add link button, and all you're going to
4:39do is just make sure that you're going
4:41to reconnect that dimension to that
4:44geometry. And you'll see here now it
4:46says linked, so when you move any of
4:48your geometries, expand or contract any
4:50of your elements, you'll see that
4:52dimensions will adjust and align with
4:54them. And the angular dimension tool
4:56works in a similar way. It measures and
4:58labels an angle between two lines. So,
5:01we're just going to find a angled point.
5:04So, we'll take this corner. And what you
5:05want to do is just follow the
5:06instructions below. So, click your first
5:08point, click your second point, then
5:11draw your first and second point of your
5:12next line,
5:14and then that will give you an angle.
5:16Here, you can then choose your acute or
5:18obtuse angle. You can change the offset
5:20once again, and you can also change your
5:22precision and suffix as you wish.
5:25And with a slightly more extreme angle,
5:27you could do exactly the same thing. You
5:29can edit that angle by pulling the
5:30toggle, and because it's linked to that
5:32left-hand side wall, as you make any
5:35changes, the angle will update. Next up
5:37is a leader. This is a line with an
5:39arrowhead pointing to a specific element
5:42with a text note at the end. This would
5:44typically be used in situations where
5:45you have material callouts, maybe
5:47construction notes, or any annotation
5:49that needs to point at something to
5:51explain it. So, a leader is really
5:53simple to operate. All you'll need to do
5:55is select your end point and then select
5:58your second and then third point for
6:00your text.
6:02Here you can also define your distance
6:04that you want that leader from that
6:06particular element.
6:07You then want to type in
6:09>> [music]
6:09>> your text. So, we're going to do in this
6:11case a built-in bookshelf.
6:14And you can also edit that leader and
6:16change the end position or the anchor at
6:19any point.
6:21And you can do all kinds of different
6:22angles as you wish. You can also once
6:24again customize the style on the
6:25right-hand side, adjusting the text
6:26size, the color, the font, the font
6:29style, etc. Now, one thing I do want to
6:31show you is that in the instance where
6:32you don't want a text head and instead
6:34you want some kind of block or
6:36annotation head to this leader, you can
6:39head to the right-hand side, select
6:40block, which will head to then the block
6:43library where you have these block
6:45options for different types of
6:47annotations. So, for example, if we
6:48choose this pill leader block and we
6:51select, this will then arrive in our
6:54model as a pill head. Now, when you
6:57click into this block, you then have the
6:59option of adding some text. Click done.
7:01You can also customize this further by
7:03double-clicking in and you can expand
7:06and contract.
7:07You can also make any
7:09edits as you wish.
7:11You can also access the text at the
7:13bottom right corner as well. You can add
7:15and type in your text here. If you want
7:18to be more kind of specific with the
7:19type, you could do like LO1 or bookshelf
7:22O1, BS O1.
7:24And you can then adjust and amend that
7:26as you wish. You could do something very
7:28similar, for example, for a window. If
7:30you wanted to then add a, let's say, an
7:33annotation of WO1 for window O1. So,
7:36this might be window type one. You can
7:37also change then some of the head
7:39options, so the gap position and
7:40rotation.
7:42Customize this as you wish. And you can
7:44also remove that gap [music] to zero
7:47just to make it a little bit neater and
7:48tighter. The arrow tool places a
7:50standalone arrow head
7:52>> [music]
7:52>> without a text label. And this might be
7:54used for indicating direction, movement,
7:56circulation, or pointing to a detail
7:58reference on a drawing. So, to use your
8:00arrow, simply select your starting point
8:02and your end point. And on the
8:04right-hand side here, once again, you
8:05can adjust your stroke, extensions, end
8:07point. And I particularly quite like to
8:09use arrows [music] for circulation or
8:12entry points. And so, we're going to
8:13make this a really thick stroke with a
8:16a nice strong
8:18arrow [music] head that we can then pull
8:21and scale down into place for maybe this
8:24entrance space. And we could then have
8:26this alongside some text to [music]
8:28annotate that this is an entrance space.
8:30And text works really simply in that
8:32just select your point of where you want
8:34your text to be located.
8:37Type in your text. So, we're going to do
8:38this entrance.
8:40And you can change your font, your font
8:42style. We'll make this slightly lighter.
8:43And we could do the same if we want to
8:44demonstrate some circulation routes
8:46inside this entrance. But a nice touch
8:49is when you select into your arrow, you
8:50can also toggle the center point to
8:53create an arc. And let's just customize
8:55these a bit further by dropping the
8:56opacity down just so they're not so
8:58strong on the drawing. And to show you
9:01in some more detail about how you could
9:02use text as annotation themselves, you
9:05can centralize text, you can
9:08turn it into a list, you can underline
9:10it, you can really customize it further
9:12to your preference. This would be used
9:15anywhere on your drawing for labels,
9:17notes, drawing titles, and any written
9:19content that isn't dimensions or tags.
9:21Although, you can use text as a tag as
9:23you wish. Tags are round's most
9:25connected annotation tool. A tag reads
9:28the properties of a block or zone and
9:30displays them as a label directly in the
9:32drawing. Zone tags also display
9:34automatically when you place [music] the
9:36zone. But in this case, I'm going to
9:37show you how to apply that tag. So, in
9:39order to understand how tags work, you
9:41need to understand how zone properties
9:43work. So, when you select any block or
9:45zone or wall element in your model, you
9:48will have zone properties on the
9:49right-hand side. Here, you want to click
9:50your four dots, which will give you a
9:52list of selected properties. [music]
9:54You can also create your own. In this
9:56case, for this zone, I want to specify
9:59maybe a material floor finish. So, we're
10:01going to create a new property, and I'm
10:03going to call this material could call
10:05this floor finish instead. I'm going to
10:07make sure the type is a text because
10:09we're going to inputting a text value.
10:12So, I'm going to give this a timber
10:13floor finish.
10:14So, now when you select that element,
10:16you have this kind of zone property
10:18assigned to it. Similarly, if you wanted
10:19to add a brand, we could say that then
10:21the supplier or manufacturer is B Cube,
10:23for example. So, they are the ones
10:25supplying this timber finish. Now, when
10:27you add your tag, you'll notice here
10:30that you have this kind of option in the
10:32bottom right corner where you can add
10:34your variable. So, first we're going to
10:35add, let's say, name. So, we want the
10:37kind of name of our zone.
10:39>> [snorts]
10:39>> We're going to then drop down and enter.
10:40We're going to then do a area. So, that
10:43would define the area of this zone. And
10:45then we're going to change the, let's
10:48say, material.
10:49So, then we can see the name,
10:52the area, and the material finish.
10:54Now, what you see is, for example, if we
10:56change the name of that zone to, let's
10:59call it, the living room,
11:01you'll see that it'll update. If you
11:02change the material in our zone
11:05properties, so let's change it to a
11:06vinyl floor finish, it will update.
11:09Likewise, if you then start moving any
11:11of your wall elements to change the size
11:13of that room,
11:14the zone will also update, and the tag
11:16will with it.
11:18So, this is really nice to keep that
11:20data and your tags aligned. Similarly,
11:23if you wanted to do this for the
11:24fireplace, we can add the name of this
11:27particular block. We could then maybe
11:29add the brand, which is going to be,
11:31let's call this fire factory. And you
11:34can also add a background which is also
11:36once again quite nice if you've got
11:37annotations over the top of certain
11:40block elements. And you could do this
11:41throughout your entire floor plan. And
11:43of course style these further to make
11:45sure they match the graphic style of
11:47your drawings. A revision cloud marks an
11:49area of a drawing that's been updated
11:50since the last issue. Revision clouds
11:52work with these two options. You can
11:54either draw a rectangle or you can draw
11:57a custom shape.
11:58In this instance, if we are saying that
12:01we have revised the position of this
12:02wall since the last conversation or the
12:05last issue with the client, you could
12:06then potentially add a leader
12:09with some text just identify that this
12:12has been updated. And if you wanted to
12:13draw that custom shape, it's really
12:15simple.
12:16And finally, the page number tool is a
12:17really nice touch for your
12:18presentations. This is particularly
12:20useful on a multi-page presentation set.
12:22So, pages work in the paper canvas. So,
12:25when you have a presentation set up with
12:27pages, views, etc., if you then select
12:30your page number and select one of the
12:32pages that you have set up, it will
12:34automatically create a page number for
12:37that specific page. So, on the
12:39right-hand side, you can customize it as
12:40you wish. But, you'll notice here that
12:42because this is already assigned as page
12:45number two, it would automatically
12:47identify this page as page two. And so,
12:49if you wanted to copy this page or add a
12:51new page, which will become page three
12:54in theory, it will identify that as page
12:56three. Likewise, if you adjust your page
13:00arrangements in the left-hand side
13:01panel,
13:03it will also adjust
13:05along with that. So, you know that your
13:06page numbers are always going to be
13:08correct. And that is the full annotation
13:10tool set in Rayon. These are the tools
13:12that allow you to add the relevant
13:14detail to communicate your drawings
13:16accurately. Try these tools for yourself
13:18with a free Rayon account linked [music]
13:20in the description. Thank you for
13:21watching, and I'll see you in the next
13:22one.
13:24>> [music]

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