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Add ECAD Area Notes

Place catalog Ecad Area Notes on keep-in, keep-out, and other ECAD area features in a Creo drawing.

Add ECAD Area Notes places Standardize catalog notes of type Ecad Area Note on ECAD area features (keep-in, keep-out, and related types) in a drawing of the board. Author those notes in the web app first. Ecad Area Note is not used by Note Builder or Note Profiles. See Note Management.

The command is available with a drawing active. The dialog title is Add Note to ECAD Area - by CadActive.

This is not Add ECAD Component Notes. Component notes use type Component Note on board components.

Open Add ECAD Area Notes

  1. Open the board drawing in Creo.

  2. On the CadActive ribbon, in the ECAD group, select Add ECAD Area Notes.

Place notes

  1. Set Desired View (Select View).

  2. Confirm ECAD Board Model.

  3. Set ECAD Area Type to All ECAD Area Types or a single type (Place - Keep In, Place - Keep Out, Place - Region, Route - Keep In, Route - Keep Out, Via - Keep Out, Flex Region, User Defined).

  4. In the table, review Status, Feature Name, Type, and Applied Note. Check the rows to update. Use Check All when every listed area should receive a note.

  5. Choose the Applied Note for each checked row from the catalog Ecad Area Notes.

  6. Select Show Settings if you want Filter Only Visible ECAD Area Features.

  7. Select OK.

Reset ECAD Area Parameters

On the Tools menu, select Reset ECAD Area Parameters to reset routing-layer parameters on ECAD area features, then continue placing notes.

Validate areas on the assembly before you annotate them on the drawing. See Validate ECAD Areas.