Saving and Retrieving Annotations

Saving Annotations

You can save a list of annotations by clicking Save to file... (towards the top of the Annotations menu) and entering a filename, which will save a file with a .ann extension.

The annotations file saves the title, description, list of markers, thumbnail image, settings file, properties files and filenames for the models on the page. It does not save any of the model files, so these must remain available for the annotations to be reloaded.

Retrieving Annotations

You can retrieve a list of annotations by clicking Retrieve from file... (towards the top of the Annotations menu) and browsing for an annotations file. This will overwrite any annotations currently in the annotations list.

Once an annotations file has been selected, you will be presented with a list of the models referenced by the annotations and the option of changing these to different models. Alternative models can be selected from a list of the models in the current session using the dropdown, or by browsing for a model using the file selector button.

Once you are happy with the list of models, click Apply to reload the annotations file. Alternatively click Cancel to return to your D3PLOT session and any annotations you had created in that session.

If the model referenced in the annotations file cannot be found by D3PLOT then the Model row will show “<Undefined><model filename from annotations file>” and the Apply button will be disabled until all rows point to an available model.

An annotations file can also be reloaded from D3PLOT's Open Plot File menu when D3PLOT is first opened, by selecting Annotations file from the Open dropdown list (annotations files cannot be opened from this menu during a session). Once you have mapped models, D3PLOT will automatically reload the first annotation.