Annotations¶
Annotations are graphical shapes, such as rectangles and lines, that you can add to your lab in CML. Annotations allow you to provide additional context to your lab topology and help you to organize the elements in a meaningful way. For example, you can use annotations to convey routing, IP addressing, and VLAN information, as shown below:
A CML lab with annotations¶
CML supports four types of annotations, which correspond to the toolbar buttons as illustrated in the figure below:
Rectangle
Ellipse
Text
Line
The four annotation tools on the Workbench toolbar¶
Annotations are saved with the lab. If you download your lab, the lab file will include your annotations, allowing you to share your annotated labs with other CML users. If you open an annotated lab and do not see the annotations in the canvas, first check whether your canvas settings are currently hiding annotations. You can show or hide annotations by toggling the Annotations button in the Canvas Settings toolbar.
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