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Using the Annotative property to size text

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Using the Annotative property to size text

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Now that we're familiar with plotting drawings to a measurable scale, I'd like to circle back, and talk a little more about Annotation. As a general rule, we should never Annotate a drawing, until we know the plot scale. That's because the plot scale determines how large the text needs to be, such that it's readable on the printed sheet. In this lesson, we'll learn how to create predictably sized text. On my screen, I have a drawing that represents a site plan for a proposed restaurant. I have already created a layout for this drawing. Let's click and take a look. This layout represents an eight and a half by 11 inch sheet of paper. If I zoom in, we can see that the geometry is being represented at a scale of 1 inch equals 40 feet. Now, I don't have to take this note's word for it, I can always verify that scale. I'll do that by double-clicking inside the viewport boundary. And If I look down here at the view port scale, I can see it's set to 1 to 40. I can also see the view port is…

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