From the course: AutoCAD: Annotation Scaling in Drawings

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Inserting blocks and attributes into the drawing

Inserting blocks and attributes into the drawing - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Annotation Scaling in Drawings

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Inserting blocks and attributes into the drawing

- [Instructor] So we're staying in our annotative blocks structure drawing and as you can see, all the settings are still the same as per the previous video, where we looked at setting up that attribute with the annotated scaling. What we're going to look at now is bringing our blocks into our drawing using annotation scaling. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to reset the layer management in the right-hand viewport. So I just double-click inside the right-hand viewport in the Layout tab. I go to my Layers panel here, and there's a little bit of a shortcut here. What I can do is I can click on the down arrow and you'll notice there that Dimensions has that little frozen symbol there, which is "Freeze or thaw in current viewpoint." If I click on that, I move away now. You'll see now, if I hit escape a couple times, that everything is back in the drawing. It's back in the viewpoint. If I double-click outside the viewpoint, just to de-activate it, and then what I'm going to do is…

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