Article - CS341101
How to find inactive annotations in a drawing by Creo Parametric TOOLKIT
Modified: 08-Sep-2025
Applies To
- Creo Parametric 4.0 to 11.0
- Creo Parametric TOOLKIT
- OTK Java
Description
- How to find inactive annotations in a drawing through TOOLKIT?
- How to check if annotation is failed and its reason of failure (i.e. Missing reference) using Creo Toolkit APIs?
- How to filter out balloon notes which are not displayed and have a black dot before their names in Drawing Tree.
- ProAnnotationIsShown() returns PRO_B_TRUE for is_shown even if a geometric tolerance is not displayed.
- Is it possible to find the dimensions whose reference is missing due to change in the model.
- ProAnnotationDisplay() returns error PRO_TK_NOT_DISPLAYED even if annotations are not present on hidden or blank layers.
- Some examples of inactive annotations:
- Inactive geometric tolerance:
- Inactive and erased dimension:
- Inactive balloon note:
- Inactive geometric tolerance:
- How to determine the missing reference dimensions of a 3D model.
- How to find dimensions with missing references using J-Link?
- How to find failed dimensions using J-Link?
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