You can add comments to show engineering change orders, to facilitate collaborative work among team members, or to allow background information to be attached to a design.

You can “pin” a comment to the workspace, or directly to a component. When a component with a “pinned” comment is moved, the comment also moves.

Complete the following steps to pin a comment to a component or the workspace:

  1. Select Place»Comment.
  2. Move the cursor to the desired location and click to place the comment.

The figure above shows a comment “pinned” to a component (1); if the component is moved, the comment moves with it. A comment can also be placed on the workspace, as shown in the figure above (2). It does not move when components are moved.

Complete the following steps to enter text in the placed comment:

  1. Double-click on the placed comment. The Comment Properties dialog box appears.
  2. Select the Display tab. The layer on which the comment appears displays in the Drawing layer list. Change this if desired.
  3. Type the desired text in the Comment text field.
  4. Select the Show popup window checkbox if you wish to show the note's contents on the workspace.
  5. Optionally, set the Background and Text colors in the Color box.
  6. In the Size box, enter the Width and Height, or enable Auto-resize to have the popup window automatically resize to show all content.
  7. Optionally, click on the Font tab to change the comment's font.
  8. Click OK. If you checked Show popup window in the Display tab, the comment displays. Otherwise, only the Comment icon displays.

To enter text without using the Comment Properties dialog box, right-click on the placed comment, select Edit Comment from the context menu that appears and type the desired text in the component's popup window.

Complete the following steps to display a hidden comment:

  1. Right-click on the desired Comment icon.
  2. Select Show comment/probe from the context menu that appears.

Complete the following steps to see the contents of a hidden comment (Show popup window is checked in the Display tab):

  1. Hover the cursor over the comment.
  2. Move the cursor to hide the comment.

Complete the following steps to change the size of a displayed comment:

  1. Select its textbox.
  2. Drag the handles that appear, as in the example (1) in the figure below.

      You can also change the size from the Display tab of the Comment Properties dialog box.