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Annotation: Using viewport scales to set your annotative scaling in your drawing

Annotation: Using viewport scales to set your annotative scaling in your drawing - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Annotation: Using viewport scales to set your annotative scaling in your drawing

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- [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 a little title block…

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