Annotate your drawings for clarity. Communicate your design with stakeholders with ease.

Add labels, markers, or custom annotations to your project using this guide.

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Visual Properties

Annotations Tool

• Guide Contents

Markers vs Labels

Giraffe offers 2 ways of adding text or image annotations to the map:

• Labels can be added to any existing or new feature. They contain text or display information about the feature - such as the gross floor area of a building, or the length of a line. Labels have limited styling options.
• Markers can be styled in a wide variety of ways. Images can be uploaded or text can be formatted and stylized in many different ways.

Annotations Tool

Add annotations to your model with these tools:

• Text (marker)
• Icon (marker)
• Leader
• Measure length
• Measure Area
• Major Arrow
• Minor Arrow
• Dashed Arrow
• Blurred Line
• Area Fill
• Upload 3D Model
• Upload Image
• Add label
• Toggle labels

Labels

Labels are the easiest way to annotate a point, line, region or building in Giraffe.

Add label to existing to add a label to something you've already drawn - like a building or region.

You can also add labels by clicking Add new property → Marker

Label content

To edit the label content, click Edit Contents in the Label section **in the left bar.

1. Kind: Outlined, Text, or Icon
2. Text to display Type any text to manually update your label

1. Properties selector

   The label border and colors can be edited, or you can get rid of the background completely. For more control over how the label appears, or to add images or popups, Upgrade to a Text Marker.

1. Label size

   Adjust with the slider, up/dn arrows, or by typing any value. Use decimal values to make text smaller than 1.0.

2. Text color

   Pick any color from the selector, or make the text transparent by clicking the crossed circle.

1. Stick or no stick: Select stick visibility. Change stick height upon adding a stick.