From the course: AutoCAD: Annotation Scaling in Drawings
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Annotation scales and viewport scales - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Annotation Scaling in Drawings
Annotation scales and viewport scales
- [Instructor] As usual, we're staying in the 03_AnnotativeText drawing. And, as you can see, I've stayed in the layout tab this time where we were looking at the new annotative text style that we created in the previous video. What we're going to look at now is annotation scale and viewport scale. Now, the reason that all of our annotation is appearing in that left viewport, if I hover over it and click on it, you can see down here on the status bar that the viewport scale is 1:4. So, the annotation scale in the Model tab tallies up with that viewport scale of 1:4. Let me just hit Escape there and select this viewport. Down here on the status bar it's 1:5. So, if I just hit Escape there to deselect, you can see that the dimensions don't tally up in each of the viewports. But also, more importantly, none of the text is appearing. That's because the text and some of the dimensions are not set up for that 1:5 annotation scale yet. So, how do we set that up so that that view in the 1:5…
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