Change color of annotation text

[klit-andersen]

Hi,

I'm new to Fusion 360 so this might be a simple question ?!

I've been trying to find where I can change the color of the annotation text when doing documentation drawings.

I like to have my component shades in the correct color, and one of the components is black. But putting black annotation text on a black component is - yeah you guessed it - not exactly the best way to document your work.

But where do I change the text color? Can't find it and also cant find other posts that explains this.

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

take a look in the Idea Station

günther

[onthuhlist]

It's not simple. Even the simplest things in Fusion 360 are UTTERLY obtuse and unituitive, to the point that you can't do the SIMPLEST things like move or resize a text box or change text color intuitively. Instead, for even the SIMPLEST text modification, you have to search Google just to figure out the hidden way that it has to be done. You'd think that grabbing and dragging a resize handle in the center of one side of a rotated text box would resize that text box only by moving that side. But oh no, the two adjacent sideas become free-floating and unintuitively move around too. And oh, by the way, if you accidentally put text on your part in the top level instead of within the component level, there's no good way to move it or get it to the right level. All along the way, Fusion 360 puts up road blocks and stop signs to prevent you from just designing a simple part that would have taken literally 5 minutes in Google Sketchup. Fusion 360 is not a tool that conforms to users, which is what good tools do. Instead, you have to use it in a ultra-regimented way or else you are going to waste your entire life just trying to get simple things done and designed in Fusion 360. I've been trying to learn the software for 3 months, and it still is ununtuitive to do the absolute simplest things like change the text color before extruding so I don't have to do it letter by letter afterward (which is an entire project in itself since the "appearance" tool in the Render side of Fusion 360 won't easily let you color the bottom of the extruded letters without knowing some hocus pocus to get Fusion 360 in the right "mode" to where it won't select the entire component when you try to drag and drop a material onto a component face.

[dnguyenA9TV6]

@onthuhlist completely agreed. I had to start using Fusion 360 for work, and it's been miserable learning the simplest things. HOW DO I FREAKING CHANGE THE COLOR OF MY ANNOTATIONS ON A DRAWING, AND WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIGURE OUT??? IT REALLY DOESNT MAKE SENSE TO YOU THAT BLACK TEXT ON BLACK LINES IN A DWG IS A TERRIBLE DESIGN?? 

I have been looking for the answer to the question (still haven't, by the way) and have found posts in this forum leading back to 2015 (7 YEARS AGO ... are you serious???) about this SAME QUESTION, with several moderators replying "we don't have this option yet, but we're working on it in the near future". Come on ... this was something your designers should have realized day 1 ....

Hoping to find the solution in the near future ...

[dnguyenA9TV6]

 @clint.brownWP9U8 @TimeraAutodesk

Hello ... as I have been searching around, it looks like Clint is the current PM for drawings, and Timera was a previous one. I'm really struggling to find an answer on this topic, and it seems like Timera has been addressing these issues since 2016! Can you guys please explicitly (yes or no) tell me whether it's possible to change the color of annotations in 2d drawings, so that not everything on the entire page is in black?? I would really like to change my dimensions and centerlines to red for contrast. Surely, this is something you guys have added since 2016, correct?? I saw several requests in the idea center regarding this issue were "accepted" by Timera back in 2016, but nothing tells me what the solution is.

[bonnyCJ92S]

In the Drawing workspace, select Document Settings and a dialog box appears. Next click on Annotation tab. Under Dimensions field change the color in 'All Dimesions'.

However, this will apply to all Dimensions on the drawing. Not a specific one

[Ajay_Kumar_Reddy · Accepted solution]

Hi @klit-andersen 

Adding to @bonnyCJ92S 

1. Document settings

2. Annotation
3. Dimension>color>change desired color
4. Notes>Bend notes>change desired color

While there's no specific option to change the text color the work around is adding notes or leader notes