Are these your notes or ours?

Yours. The library is your standard block in your own wording, and the notes a part earns are added from rules you set. A note you would never put on a drawing is a note that never appears on one.

What if a recommended note is wrong for this part?

Take it off. Nothing is locked and nothing is released without you: the block is part of the drawing, and the drawing does not go anywhere until your engineer says it does.

Where does a conditional note come from?

From the model and from your rules. The material, the finish and the features are read off the part, and each rule you have written says what that fact requires: this alloy names that spec, a coating means dimensions apply after finish, a tapped hole means a thread class.

Does it handle local notes, not just the general block?

Yes. A note that applies to one feature is flagged on the view rather than buried in the general block, which is where a machinist will actually read it.

Can it write the note block on a drawing Drafter did not make?

No. Notes writes the block on drawings Drafter produces. For a sheet that came from somewhere else, the Redliner reads the block you already have and tells you what is missing or contradictory in it.

Our note block is the output of twenty years of arguments. Can we just keep it?

Yes, and that is the intended way to start. Load your block as it stands, and it goes on every drawing exactly as written. The rules are for the parts where somebody has been adding a line by hand, which is where the block was quietly going out of date anyway.

Notes

Your note block came off an older drawing.

Notes writes the block for each drawing: your standard notes in your own words, plus the notes this part needs for its material, finish and features. You can edit any of it before release.

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NotesSheet 1

General notesRecommended

1.INTERPRET DRAWING PER ASME Y14.5-2018.Your standard
2.REMOVE ALL BURRS AND BREAK SHARP EDGES .005 TO .015.Your standard
3.MATERIAL: ALUMINUM 6061-T6 PER AMS-QQ-A-250/11.Material on the model
4.FINISH: ANODIZE TYPE II, CLASS 1, PER MIL-A-8625.Finish on the model
5.DIMENSIONS APPLY AFTER FINISH.Because a coating is called out
6.TAPPED HOLES TO BE FREE OF CHIPS. THREADS CLASS 2B.14X tapped holes on the part
7.SURFACE ROUGHNESS 63 MICROINCH RA PER ASME B46.1 UNLESS NOTED.Machined faces that mate

5 from the part · 2 from your libraryYours to edit

Every line, and the reason it is there.

Two of these are your company's standard notes, in your wording. The rest come from the part itself. It is 6061-T6, so the material spec is named. It is anodized, so the drawing says dimensions apply after finish. Leave that note off and a plated part can come back out of tolerance.

You decide what earns a note.

A note that is always on every drawing is a note in your library. A note that belongs on some drawings is a rule: this material, that coating, a tapped hole, a weld. You write both, in your words, and the drawing assembles its own block from them. Nothing here is our opinion about how your parts should be made.

Templates for whole drawings

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Note rulesYour library

Always: Interpret drawing per ASME Y14.5-2018.
Always: Remove all burrs and break sharp edges.
Material 6061-T6: Name the governing material spec.
A coating is called out: Dimensions apply after finish.
Tapped holes present: Threads to class 2B, free of chips.
Weldment: Welding per AWS D17.1, class B.

Capabilities

What Notes puts on the sheet.

If your standard notes live in a spreadsheet, or get copied from the last drawing someone made, every drawing starts with a paste and a guess. Notes keeps them in one library and adds the right ones to every drawing automatically, inside the same tool that makes the drawing.

Your notes, your wording

The standard block your company puts on everything, kept in a library that belongs to you. We do not have opinions about your house style; we have a place to keep it.

Your library

The notes this part earns

Material, finish, process and features are read off the model, and the notes that follow from them are added to the block: the spec that governs the alloy, the note a coating requires, the class a tapped hole needs.

Material · Finish · Features

General and local

A note that governs the part goes in the block. A note that governs one feature goes on the view, flagged, so a machinist reads it where they are already looking.

The interpretation note, always

Every sheet says which rule set it is drawn to, which is the note that decides what all the others mean and the one most often missing from a pasted block.

They survive a re-run

Change the model and the drawing regenerates with its block intact: your library notes stay, and a note the part no longer earns comes off.

The same block on every sheet

A package detailed by one person on Monday and another on Thursday carries one note block, which is what stops a supplier asking why two drawings of the same assembly disagree.

Every sheet, one block

Why it matters

A note is something you are paying for.

Every line in that block is work a shop has to do and price. A blanket surface finish on a part with one functional face is a quote that comes back high for no reason anybody can point at, and a missing one is a part that gets made wrong and is nobody's fault. The right note block is the shortest one that still makes the part correct, and knowing which notes this part earns is exactly the judgment that goes missing when the block is pasted in from a sheet somebody drew in 2019.

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Questions

What teams ask about their note block.

Are these your notes or ours?: Yours. The library is your standard block in your own wording, and the notes a part earns are added from rules you set. A note you would never put on a drawing is a note that never appears on one.
What if a recommended note is wrong for this part?: Take it off. Nothing is locked and nothing is released without you: the block is part of the drawing, and the drawing does not go anywhere until your engineer says it does.
Where does a conditional note come from?: From the model and from your rules. The material, the finish and the features are read off the part, and each rule you have written says what that fact requires: this alloy names that spec, a coating means dimensions apply after finish, a tapped hole means a thread class.
Does it handle local notes, not just the general block?: Yes. A note that applies to one feature is flagged on the view rather than buried in the general block, which is where a machinist will actually read it.
Can it write the note block on a drawing Drafter did not make?: No. Notes writes the block on drawings Drafter produces. For a sheet that came from somewhere else, the Redliner reads the block you already have and tells you what is missing or contradictory in it.
Our note block is the output of twenty years of arguments. Can we just keep it?: Yes, and that is the intended way to start. Load your block as it stands, and it goes on every drawing exactly as written. The rules are for the parts where somebody has been adding a line by hand, which is where the block was quietly going out of date anyway.

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