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Interface: Using the scale list In viewports and annotation

Interface: Using the scale list In viewports and annotation - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Interface: Using the scale list In viewports and annotation

- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD Tip and Trick. We're going to have a little look now at the scale list in AutoCAD, and the scale list is what allows you to define both your annotation scale, and your view port scale and I'll talk about that in a bit more depth in a moment. Just before we go into looking at the scale list we've got a drawing you can use to follow along with the video, it's called surprise surprise scale list.dwg and you can find that in the library and you can download it obviously use it to follow along with the video, now what you've got in the drawing is a simply Polyline and some circles like so. But more importantly what we've also got is an ISO A3 Landscape Layout tab. So when you go into that there's a little typer block and a couple of view ports at differing scales as well. Now I'm not going to worry about the layout tab just yet so let's jump back in to the model tab for the moment, now I mentioned the scale list by way of annotation scale, if…

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