From the course: AutoCAD: Developing A Prefab Unit

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Making sure that annotation only shows in the appropriate viewports

Making sure that annotation only shows in the appropriate viewports - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Making sure that annotation only shows in the appropriate viewports

- [Instructor] We're staying in our Annotating Your Unit Design.dwg file, and at the moment, you can see that we're in the layout tab, which is the ISO A1 Landscape layout, and we've got our four equal view ports, all set up with different views and different visual styles at the moment. Now, what we want to start thinking about is making sure that things like our dimensions only appear in the appropriate view port. Now, we did that already in the previous video, when we used our annotation scale in the model space when we placed our dimensions, and then that annotation scale matches the view port scale here in the top-left view port. So we've created a top-left view port now of a plan view, giving us our dimensions and our text labels showing where the window and the door is. Now, it's very basic, I must stress that, this is very basic, but the whole idea is that we're getting you into that workflow, into that process of…

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