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Changing the scale assigned to annotations

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Changing the scale assigned to annotations

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Remember that annotative objects are sized for a specific viewport scale. Knowing that, what do we do if the scale of the viewport changes? In this lesson, we'll learn how to update our annotative objects to match a new viewport scale. On my screen, I have a drawing that is configured to plot at a scale of one inch equals 30 feet. Let's say that my design requires that I plot this geometry at a scale of one inch equals 40 feet. To make that change, I'm going to double-click in the viewport. I will then make sure that it's unlocked and I'll change the scale to one to 40. Notice that the annotations no longer display. That's because they're not intended to display at this scale. I'm going to double-click outside the view port boundary, and before I forget I'll update the scale of the drawing. When I'm finished I'll do a zoom extents and then we'll return to model space. To make these annotations show up at 40 scale, all we have to do is add that scale to each object. One way to do that…

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