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Setting the annotation scale

Setting the annotation scale - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Setting the annotation scale

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- We're staying in the 05-Elevations 2D house drawing as we've done all the way through the videos in this chapter, and I've left the drawing in the same state as it was at the end of the last video. So, what we've done is we've placed our house East Elevation view port down underneath the house plan view and, as you can see, now that we've set the view port scale, the annotative dimensions are not displaying. So, we now need to set up our annotation scale in the model space for the dimensions on the East Elevation. So, if I go into the Model tab now, you'll notice the dimensions are still there, on the East Elevation, the ones that we placed previously. So, if I select both of these dimensions here, like so, and then if I right click and go down to Properties on the Shortcut menu, if I just bring the Properties palette up a little bit and into the middle of the screen, and place it over the plan view, 'cause we don't need the plan view, you can see in the Properties palette, we've…

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