Annotative objects were introduced in AutoCAD 2008, ending 25 years of calculating agony, but a quick show of hands in classes at Autodesk University and AUGI CAD Camp reveals that only 20 percent of students, on average, have ever tried using annotative objects — and most of the students abandoned them to return to the old way, in the belief that they weren’t working.
Make sure that you’re in model space, and follow these steps to enable the use of annotative scaling for new or modified annotation objects.
Annotation scaling in AutoCAD allows you to plot annotation at the same height or size regardless of the viewport zoom scale. Annotation scales can be associated with annotative objects so that these objects can be sized properly for specific annotation scales in model space and displayed correctly in paper space.
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Here’s what you need to remember about annotative objects:
Now here is the dirty, dark secret of why most people give up on annotative objects. It all goes back to the annotative controls:
By themselves, both options can give you some headaches, but if both options are enabled at the same time and you switch the current scale it is not obvious that you might have accidentally added the current scale to all the annotative objects in your drawing.
Change Viewport Annotation Scale
Most of the time, there are way too many scales listed in the Add Scales to Object dialog box. AutoCAD has a handy-dandy Edit Drawing Scales dialog box that lets you remove those imperial scales from the current drawing if you never work in feet and inches.
To run through the scales, choose Scale List on the Annotation Scaling panel of the Ribbon’s Annotate tab. If you make a mistake, pressing the Reset button restores all default scales. You can remove those extra scales for all drawings in the Default Scale List dialog box, accessible from the User Preferences tab of the Options dialog box.
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