Working in a locked viewport can allow you to add annotative scales to your annotation objects automatically. Author Shaun Bryant shows you how.
- [Narrator] Welcome to another AutoCAD tip and trick. … Today, we're going to be looking at annotation … and more specifically how you can utilize … your viewport scales to apply annotative scaling … to some of the dimension objects … that you're going to be placing in your AutoCAD drawings. … We've got a drawing for you in the library … it's called 203 Annotation Anno Scaling.dwg. … And if you look up at the title bar there in AutoCAD, … you can see the name of the file, … that's the file you need to download … and open in AutoCAD to follow along … with this particular tips and tricks video. … When you open it up, go into the model tab, … and you'll see that we've got … a simple little bearing drawing there available to you … with some center lines, some hidden detail, … and some outlining on that white layer there, … which is the objects layer. … Now, one of the lovely features of AutoCAD now is … I can jump into the layout tab, … which is here the ISO A2 landscape. … And you can see there that we've got …
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10/5/2016Skill Level Intermediate
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Video: Annotation: Using viewport scales to set your annotative scaling in your drawing