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Using annotative scaling

Using annotative scaling - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using annotative scaling

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our designintent.dwg file, and you can see that we're in our ISO A1 landscape layout tab with our nicely scaled viewport that we locked previously in the previous video. We're going to create another rectangular viewport, so make sure you're on the Viewports layer, which we are, in the Layers panel there, and then go up to the Layout tab on the ribbon again, and I'm going to go to Layout Viewports here, click on the flyout for Rectangular, like so, and if you want to, use your endpoint snap there, click, and just drag a viewport to about there and click again, like so. You can see that this smaller viewport again zooms to extents, which I'm not too worried about at the moment because we're going to zoom to a specific part of our AutoCAD drawing. Now, you'll notice, if you look at this 1:100 viewport, down here on our table that we put some dimensions on previously, it's not showing the…

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