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               <p class="para_td">Flat Pattern Annotation Overview</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic"><b class="uiTerm">Flat Pattern Annotation</b> allows you to control and change display properties of flat pattern wireframe geometry. The display properties you can control are font, color and line width.
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      <p class="para_topic">The flat pattern geometry divides into the following classes:</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">You can establish preferences for the display of these classes of objects. You can use the defaults file to set the default preferences, which can be interactively overridden.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">There is also an interactive capability for selecting flat pattern objects and changing the display properties.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">In addition to display type control, <b class="uiTerm">Flat Pattern Annotation</b> also gives the ability to interactively add text callouts to the flat pattern.
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      <p class="para_topic"><b class="uiTerm">Flat Pattern Annotation</b> is only available in the Sheet Metal Features and Forming/Flattening application.
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