Setting the annotation scale

- [Narrator] We're staying in our 12_annotating.dwg file. And what we're going to look at now is setting the annotation scale to work in conjunction with our annotative dimensions that we created obviously in the previous video. Now you can see there, there's our dimensions there. Now they all look a bit small at the moment that's because when we placed those particular annotative dimensions in the model tab we did not have the right annotation scale set.

Now our annotation scale tallies up with our view port scale so we need to make sure that we've got a view port scale set to a recognized scale first. So we jump to our A1 landscape tab here our sheet tab. We're going to use the top left of view port. So just double click inside the view port, that will activate it and just pan the view down a little bit, like so. So it's looking sensible in the view port like that.

Now, you'll notice down on the status bar when you're in the sheet tab, the moment it's got a scale of 0.02. That's not a recognized scale. So we click on the annotation flyout here and I'm going to make this 1:50. So it's a 50 of its original size in the view port. Now that kind of, is sensible, it's a sensible scale. It doesn't take it too big or too small in the view port but did you notice that our dimensions disappeared? That's because we haven't got an annotation scale set for those annotative dimensions in the model tab yet.

So, with that set to 1:50, double click outside the view port to deactivate it. We then going to jump back to our model tab here. Now, you'll notice on the status bar at the bottom of the screen in the model tab our annotation scale is still set at 1:1, which is why these are so small because they're all about 3.5 mm high in a 1:1 full size model tab millimeters environment. So if I now set this annotation here to 1:50 as well to match my view port in the shape tab, if I zoom in now here as well on this door, what I'll do now is I'll place another linear dimension but with my annotation scale set to that 1:50.

Let's see what happens when I do that. Click on the flyout on the dimension's panel and linear, like so. Now I need the endpoint snap on there or I could potentially go there. That's probably a bit better. And I want an endpoint snap there. Make sure I got the endpoint like so and as a drag now, can you see that's much, much bigger. So it's two clicks and then a click to place the dimension. Hit escape to deselect the dimension and then zoom in to little bit.

Do you notice the difference with the annotation scale changed? That one looks much bigger than those there. And we'll look at how this all works properly in the next video.