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Annotative scaling

Annotative scaling - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Annotative scaling

- [Voiceover] I mentioned in the previous video that we were going to have a look now at annotative scaling of our text. It's a very useful tool if you're using viewports of different sizes in your Layout tabs in your FM drawings in AutoCAD. Now, you can see that we've still got the bit of text there that says Annex, and that's our room name. Now, I've set that up at a specific height using a 1:100 annotation scale down at the bottom of the screen. So that means that if I put this particular view into a viewport in the Layout tab at a scale of 1:100, that text will appear because it's got an annotative scale set against it. So, what we're going to do now is we're gonna go to the zero, zero ground Layout tab. You can see we've got our proprietary title block in there. What I'm going to do now is create a new layer in the Home tab on the ribbon, so we go to the Layers panel, Layer Properties, click on New Layer. Now we're gonna create a new layer and we're gonna call it FM-VIEWPORTS…

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