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Using annotative scaling

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Using annotative scaling

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- [[Instructor] We're staying in the Design Intent.dwg file and what we're going to look at now is using annotative scaling to get our dimensions to display more accurately. And what we'll also do, as well, is just make sure that we resize the Bolting Plate PLAN text and the Notes text to fit nicely into the A3 Landscape layout, as well. So, you'll notice that the dimensions aren't displaying very well at all, at the moment. They're very small and tiny. If you select that viewport that we placed previously, you'll notice down on the status bar that the viewport scale is set to one to five. Hit escape to deselect that and then jump back into the Model tab down here, bottom left. If you zoom out a bit, you'll see that there's all our information in our model space. We don't need the title block that we created previously. That can be selected and deleted. We've already copy and pasted that into the A3 Landscape tab. Now, the dimensions themselves need to become annotative. Now, in order…

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