From the course: AutoCAD: Annotation Scaling in Drawings

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Setting up an annotative block

Setting up an annotative block - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Annotation Scaling in Drawings

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Setting up an annotative block

- [Instructor] So we're staying in our 04_AnnotativeBlocks drawing, and, obviously, we're on layer zero. We set that up in the previous video, but, again, always do that little sanity check. Just jump to your Layers panel on the Home tab on the ribbon. Then you can see it there, layer zero is the current drafting layer in the pull-down menu. So, what we're going to do is look at creating an annotative block. Now, bear in mind, this block that you create, if it's annotative, it will be the same size in every viewport, regardless of the viewport's scale and the annotation scale. So what we're going to do, we're going to create a little symbol that denotes the fact that this is a section view. So it's going to be a little square, and it's going to have the word section underneath it. Now, the word section, the text, is going to be part of the block, so we're going to use single-line text, but we're just going to use an annotative text style so that, basically, the text remains the same…

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