Accessing Settings

Select Tools > Options... from the menu bar.

The Options dialog box appears.

Select the Mechanical Design category in the left-hand box.

The options for Functional Tolerancing & Annotation settings appear, organized in tabs.

Select the tab corresponding to the options to be customized.

Options in this tab...	Allow you to customize...
Administration	Administration settings.
Annotation	Annotation behavior settings.
Constructed Geometry	Constructed geometry settings.
Dimension	Dimensions settings.
Display	Display settings.
Manipulators	Annotation manipulators settings.
Tolerances	Dimension tolerances settings.
Tolerancing	Tolerancing settings.
View/Annotation Plane	View/annotation plane settings.

Set these options according to your needs.

Some options in other categories are useful for Assembly Design.

Select the General category in the left-hand box.

The options for Display settings appear, organized in tabs.

Select the Navigation tab corresponding to the options to be customized.

Warning:

Only the Navigation tab and some of its options are useful for Functional Tolerancing & Annotation.

Options in this tab...	Allow you to customize...
Navigation	Highlight faces and edges The related geometry highlights when selected an annotation.
Navigation	Limit display of manipulators to ... element(s) The maximum number of manipulator displayed from selected annotations. When the number of selected annotations is greatest than the option number, no manipulator is displayed.

Click OK to save the settings and exit the Options dialog box.