From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Space Management
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Annotative scaling - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Space Management
Annotative scaling
- [Voiceover] We're staying in our 00_GND_FM_ANNOTATE.dwg file with the FP, the facilities plan, the GA drawing referenced in. I've stayed zoomed in on that area that I zoomed into on the previous video, which is the top left of the facilities management plan. Now what we're going to look at after we've set up our text style is we're now gonna look at using annotative scaling to make sure that our text remains consistent in size across different scaled view ports in the Layout tab. That might sound very, very complicated. It's not, trust me. So what we need to do first is make sure that in our Home tab on the ribbon we go to the Layers panel here, Layer Properties, and you'll notice we have a layer called FM-VIEWPORTS there, can you see it, that one there? That's a layer that's set up specifically to put view ports into our Layout tab of our drawing. I'm gonna make that the current layer, double click next to it, I'm just gonna slide along the slider bar here and make sure that we're…
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