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Adding an annotative scale

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Adding an annotative scale

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- [Voiceover] As usual, we're staying in the 05_PlottingToScale.dwg file. And you'll be following along with your downloaded local one that you've got from your lynda.com exercise files. Now, in the previous video, we did a bit of annotative scaling. And what we did was we placed an annotative dimension between the gridlines J and I in the top-left corner of the drawing. So I'm in the Model tab. Again, I'm going to zoom in, but what I'm going to do is, I'm going to zoom so that I can actually see both dimensions, like so. So if I just zoom and pan a little, you can see there's the 3050 that I placed at 1:100 annotation scale. Down here, on Staircase A, is the other annotative dimension, which is at 1:20 annotation scale. So when we go to the GA here, the GA layout, and I pan down, you can see that I can see the 3050, but I can't see the Staircase A dimension on the handrail. What we're going to do is, we're going to change that. I'm just going to double-click on the wheel to zoom…

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