Automatic hyperlinking

After drawings are published, the newly published drawings, as well as previously published ones with the same group, are checked for text-based callouts. If the callout text matches the number of a published drawing, a public annotation is created around the callout. The annotation is automatically hyperlinked to the current version of the drawing.

When a new revision is published, the callout annotation from the previous revision is not copied over. A new callout annotation is created in the new revision instead.

Callout hyperlink example
  • Automatic linking is supported only in vector drawings and not in raster drawings.
  • A callout annotation isn't created if the callout text matches the number of the drawing that it's in.
  • The callout text can have multiple layers of annotations. You can see the linked drawings in the Links panel.
  • You can change the appearance of callout annotations.
  • For drawings published prior to the callout annotations feature, annotations aren't created unless you publish a revision of the drawing.