Notes in a Sketch

[CrashedAgain]

OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (MATE/mate)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.23578 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 50c3cbf00579dc4941ca743c25720d016b0453ce
Python version: 3.8.6
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: English/Canada (en_CA)
I'm pretty sure this must have been asked already but I've searched and can't find it.

Is there any way to add notes into a sketch?
and ....
Is there any way to add a dimension that is not a constraint - so that it just acts as a distance measurement?

[drmacro]

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Is there any way to add notes into a sketch?

Not that I'm aware.

and ....
Is there any way to add a dimension that is not a constraint - so that it just acts as a distance measurement?

Same as adding a construction line.

[openBrain]

Same as adding a construction line.

For sake of precision, Sketcher ToggleDrivingConstraint (needed here) is a different function from Sketcher ToggleConstruction

[TheMarkster]

Requires 0.19 or later.

In the python console enter:

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sk = App.ActiveDocument.Sketch #replace .Sketch with actual name of the sketch
sk.addProperty("App::PropertyStringList","Notes") #then modify Notes property to include your notes using the property editor

[CrashedAgain]

Excellent!

Exactly what I wanted to know.....

Thank You

One more thing: If/when the "Notes" property is added, is there a way to display it in the sketch (like an annotation)?

[TheMarkster]

Excellent!

Exactly what I wanted to know.....

Thank You

One more thing: If/when the "Notes" property is added, is there a way to display it in the sketch (like an annotation)?

Not in the sketch as far as I know.

[kisolre]

I dont know how the geometry is stored and represented in sketcher but is it worth adding some generalization for the future? Like if there is a type that is not understood it is just stored but ignored otherwise (probably some marker that there is extra data would be good). So in the future if somebody adds annotation capabilities those objects will not brace forward compatibility as recent changes did?