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This entry is part 7 of 12 in the series New in SolidWorks 2013<\/a><\/div>

There’s been a long trail of discussions on the topic of adding watermarks to SolidWorks drawings. \u00a0 For one reason or another, watermarks are seen by some as necessary in drawings. \u00a0The starting point of the conversion can be roughly traced back to the SolidWorks Forum in 2006<\/a>. \u00a0 In December 2007, I did one article that incompletely addressed the need. \u00a0If you just needed text to show up on your sheet format, you can review the first article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then, a question was asked at the first Stump the Chumps<\/a> presentation at SolidWorks World 2008<\/a>\u00a0about how to add watermarks to drawings. \u00a0No answer was given at that presentation (the chumps where stumped).<\/p>\n

Soon after SolidWorks World 2008, Ben Eadie<\/a> (one of the stumped chumps) found an About SolidWorks article<\/a> that discussed various aspects of this topic. \u00a0(The article appears to have been maintained\/updated since then.) \u00a0 \u00a0 Around that time, I also wrote a detailed article <\/a>about how to link your custom properties to your watermark and provided a trick \u00a0to get the watermark note to appear underneath elements on the drawing sheet. \u00a0Linking custom properties to the watermark allows the watermark value to be controlled by Enterprise PDM workflows.<\/p>\n

OK, so what was the trick to getting notes to appear underneath drawing elements? If you created a block of an annotation note on your sheet format, that note block will appear under your drawing (without obscuring drawing content).<\/p>\n

In Solidworks 2013, you no longer need to use that trick to get your sheet format note to appear underneath drawing elements. \u00a0There is now a command that resides in the right-click menu for each annotation note on the sheet format called “Display Note Behind Sheet”. \u00a0When checked, the \u00a0note is placed underneath drawing view elements on the drawing sheet, including other annotations, dimensions and model geometry in both HLR\/HLV and shaded modes.<\/p>\n

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Display Note Behind Sheet<\/em> is a checkmarked command in the<\/pre>\n
right-click menu for any\u00a0annotation note on the sheet format.<\/pre>\n
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With the checkmark set on the note in sheet format, the<\/pre>\n
note appears under all\u00a0drawing\u00a0view elements.<\/pre>\n
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Uncheckmarking the option will apply standard ordering<\/pre>\n
of drawing elements, with geometry obsured by<\/pre>\n
the note.<\/pre>\n
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