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Annotation: Working with annotative object scales to add annotative scales to dimension objects in your drawings

Annotation: Working with annotative object scales to add annotative scales to dimension objects in your drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Annotation: Working with annotative object scales to add annotative scales to dimension objects in your drawings

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD tip and trick. Today we're going to look at annotation and more importantly, annotative objects, in this case annotative dimensions. Now the drawing we've got for you in the library is called 204annotation-anoobjects.dwg. You can see the name of it there in the title bar of the AutoCAD screen in front of you. Now ideally you want to download that drawing from the library, open it up in AutoCAD so that you can follow along with this particular Tips and Tricks video. Now, when you open it up, it should open up in the model tab where you can see the dimensions. Now these particular dimensions have certain annotative properties. So, if I hover over this one here, you can see the little symbol there next to the crosshair, indicating that it has an annotative dimension style. Same with the slightly smaller ones here, again it has an annotative dimension style. But what that also means is that each of these different dimension objects has an…

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