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Draw a shape on a face

Mark a spot on a design's face in the viewer, and give the session something concrete to act on.

You want to mark a specific spot on a design's face, to talk about it or to give the session something concrete to act on.

1. Open the design you want to mark. See Pick which design is on screen.
2. Press Annotate in the viewer's toolbar.
3. Click a face on the model. Turret places a painting plane on it and names the part and face beside the toggle.
4. Choose a shape from the picker beside the toggle: a circle, a rectangle or a point. For a rectangle, choose whether a drag draws from its centre or between two opposite corners. For a circle, choose centre or two ends of a diameter instead.
5. Drag across the face to draw. A point needs only a click.
6. Open the Annotations list to rename or delete a shape. Type directly into its name field. Press the ✕ beside a shape to delete it.

Clicking a different face while Annotate is on moves the plane there instead of drawing.

The session reads what is drawn the next time it looks at the design: the camera, the visible objects, and each shape's face and coordinates. Refer to a shape by the name it was given instead of describing it again.

See Modes for what CAD mode is.