Connect comment / note / description / reference to drawing view

oliver_august

Can anyone tell me how to connect a comment to a drawing view?
So that it moves with the view when sliding the view to another place on the sheet? 

In this case it´s the "a":


The dimensioning moves with the view, but I don´t know how to connect the comments so that they move with the view too.

In Solid Works that worked with a click inside the boundary of the view before placing the comment, but in OS it didn´t work.

Is there anybody with a good advice, or should I go and write an improvement request?

nick_papageorge073

Oh, I misread your message. Yes, you can still move a member of the group without moving the whole group. So if you had the balloon grouped with the view, left click on the balloon first. Then, once its highlighted, you can move it individually. It will still be part of the group. I find this tricky sometimes to get the click order correct, and sometimes end up moving the entire group if I get it wrong.

nick_papageorge073

Select the dimension and the note. Right click. Select group. 

Or

Select the view and the note. Right click. Select Group. 

oliver_august

Thank you @nick_papageorge073 , it really works.

Downside is that you can´t move single comments or dimensionings afterwards without moving the whole group.
So you have to be sure you don´t want to move anything after the grouping.

Better than nothing, but not as it should be. 

nick_papageorge073

oliver_august said:

Thank you @nick_papageorge073 , it really works.

Downside is that you can´t move single comments or dimensionings afterwards without moving the whole group.
So you have to be sure you don´t want to move anything after the grouping.

Better than nothing, but not as it should be. 

That's true if you group to the view. But if you group to a dimension (it looked to me like your balloon was pointing to the 2 DIM), then the group is much smaller and will move with more freedom.

nick_papageorge073

Oh, I misread your message. Yes, you can still move a member of the group without moving the whole group. So if you had the balloon grouped with the view, left click on the balloon first. Then, once its highlighted, you can move it individually. It will still be part of the group. I find this tricky sometimes to get the click order correct, and sometimes end up moving the entire group if I get it wrong.

oliver_august

nick_papageorge073 schrieb:

So if you had the balloon grouped with the view, left click on the balloon first. Then, once its highlighted, you can move it individually. It will still be part of the group. I find this tricky sometimes

One more time - you are right!
It works, no matter if it is grouped with the whole view or just grouped with one dimensioning.
But what was missing in your post was that this only works when pushing on the point in the middle of the item you want to move - this point only appears when the items are grouped.
Otherwise you move the whole group, even if you only select the item you want to move.
I had to find out first why it didn´t work the way you told at first... now I know.

That´s what I really dislike using Onshape:
A lot of functions that are really easy to use at Solid Works are also available at Onshape - but very hidden and very complicated to use, so that it takes a lot of time to find out if and how it works or to find some workaround, and then you have to remember all this complicated stuff all the time...

Anyway, in this case it really works this way, a lot of things don´t even really work using complicated workarounds, espeacially if it comes to sheet metal.
I hope that drawings an sheet metal get a lot of improvements soon...

nick_papageorge073

Yeah, there was something weird about you have to click just right to move the individual item. I think I figured it out by chance one day.

I still haven't nailed down mate connector orientations when placed on the origin, no matter how many times someone has showed it to me:)

oliver_august

That´s what I meant - a lot of things work, but it´s very hard to find out how, and it´s hard to remember all the weird ways all the time - at least for me.
Too often it´s not intuitive to handle or self-explanatory.

Sometimes I write a post, the Onshape people create a ticket, obviously because they also think it doesn´t work - and then someone comes around and knows how it works.
But then it´s complicated.
I always wonder then how the people found out how it works, and how much time they spent on this...