ANNOTATE(nged)

attach annotation objects to geometry

📅 published 7.44.0, from nixpkgs unstable

💅 ANNOTATE(nged) — the BRL-CAD user command you're gonna be obsessed with

okay so bestie, listen up: this is annotate from the nged manual, and it's literally the glow-up your geometry has been waiting for ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

annotate [object(s)] [-n name] [-p x y z]

like, that's the whole vibe. objects first, flags after, go off 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea 🍓 — annotate creates or manages annotation objects that are associated with the geometry objects you specify. and what even is an annotation object? it's a non-geometry database object, meaning it's not real geometry, it doesn't render as a shape, it's just vibes and information — it attaches labels, notes, leaders, or dimension indicators to your model elements. main character energy for your metadata, honestly 👑

fr fr: if you don't give it any objects, it just prints usage info at you. no objects, no annotations, no mercy 😭

the annotation types it supports are giving very much a whole aesthetic:

  • label / leader — a text label with an optional leader line 🧚
  • angular / radial / dimension — dimensional annotations 🔥
  • note — a free-form note 🎀
  • box — a boxed text region 🦋
  • axes / plane — coordinate system or plane indicators ⭐
  • table — tabular annotation data 👑

and the big alignment question: annotations can be aligned to the view (always facing the screen, so it's always looking at you like 👀) or to the model (fixed in 3D space, living its life in the scene). iykyk 💖

✨ Options ✨

  • -n name — give your new annotation object the name you specified instead of letting it use an automatically generated name. name your child, bestie 🫶
  • -p x y z — place the annotation at model coordinates (x, y, z). exactly there. no cap 💅

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Example 1. Annotate an object with a label

mged> annotate hull.r -n hull_note -p 0 0 500

what this does: creates a label annotation named hull_note associated with hull.r, positioned at model coordinate (0, 0, 500). slay. that's it, that's the annotation 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • label(nged) — go read that one next, bestie 🎀

💜 AUTHOR 💜

BRL-CAD Team — iconic, no notes 👑

😭 BUG REPORTS 😭

found a bug? a problem? something being real sus? reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org — they wanna hear it, fr fr 📧

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