If you have found getting the proper scale factors per viewport to be frustrating and confusing, then you will love annotative scaling. No longer do you need to create multiple sets of text and dimensions on multiple layers. Now you create one set of annotative objects (such as text, dimensions, multiple leaders, blocks, attributes, and hatches), indicate the desired actual plotted size, and it automatically displays at the correct size.
Controlling Annotation Scale
An annotative property can be assigned to objects such as text, dimensions, blocks, and hatches. Just create the object at the actual size you want it to plot and indicate the intended scale factor or factors. Any object with an annotative property can have one or more scales assigned to it (such as ¼”=1’ or 1:50). This capability makes it easy to display the same object in different viewports with varying scale factors. For example, the same text object could appear in one viewport that is scaled 1/8” = 1’, and another viewport at 1”=1’.
You can change an existing object to annotative using the Properties command.
Redefining a style or definition to be annotative does not affect existing objects. Use the ANNOUPDATE command to update selected objects to match their style or definition (model space only).
AutoCAD®
Lynn Allen’s Tips and Tricks
For Using AutoCAD 2009
Controlling Annotation Scale
An annotative property can be assigned to objects such as text, dimensions, blocks, and hatches. Just create the object at the actual size you want it to plot and indicate the intended scale factor or factors. Any object with an annotative property can have one or more scales assigned to it (such as ¼”=1’ or 1:50). This capability makes it easy to display the same object in different viewports with varying scale factors. For example, the same text object could appear in one viewport that is scaled 1/8” = 1’, and another viewport at 1”=1’.
You can change an existing object to annotative using the Properties command.
Redefining a style or definition to be annotative does not affect existing objects. Use the ANNOUPDATE command to update selected objects to match their style or definition (model space only).
AutoCAD®
Lynn Allen’s Tips and Tricks
For Using AutoCAD 2009
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