Schematic comments

Description of how to create comment objects in a schematic.

Schematic comments are rectangular objects that can display custom text, and are normally used to clarify or describe parts of the model. An example is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Schematic comment example

Creating schematic comments

Schematic comments can be created by right-clicking to access the context menu and selecting Add comment to model (Figure 2).

Figure 2. Schematic comments on context menu

Once selected, the dialog box shown in Figure 3 appears.

Figure 3. Schematic comments main dialog
The text of the comment must be written in this dialog. Some visual properties can also be set from it:
  • Font
  • Font color
  • Comment background color
  • Display an outline around the comment
Furthermore, when Add more information is checked, extra options appear. We will take a look at them in the next section (Figure 4).

Adding more information

The Add more information checkbox displays new options, as illustrated in Figure 4. They allow you to add more information to be displayed by the comment in the form of plain text, or by loading from an external HTML or PDF file. When loading a file, the default behavior is that a relative path to it will be saved. However, you can check the Embed box for the loaded file to be included in the model file. Please notice that this will increase the file size and parsing time.

Figure 4. Adding more information to schematic comments

With more information included, an extra icon will appear on the left side of the comment in the schematic canvas (Figure 5).

Figure 5. Show more information button

Clicking on it displays the content of the file or the plain text in a new window.

Figure 6. More information visualization window