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AUTO CAD TRAINING 5 - Annotation Scale ANNOTATION SCALE: Annotation scale is a setting that is saved with model space, layout viewports, and model views. When you add annotative objects to your drawing, they support the current annotation scale and are scaled based on that scale setting and automatically displayed at the correct size in model space. Before you add annotative objects to your model, you set the annotation scale. Think about the eventual scale settings of the viewports in which the annotations will display. The annotation scale should be set to the same scale as the viewport in which the annotative objects will display in the layout (or the plot scale if plotting from model space). For example, if the annotative objects will display in a viewport that has a scale of 1:2, then you set the annotation scale to 1:2. When working on the model tab or when a viewport is selected, the current annotation scale is displayed on the application or drawing status bar. You can use the status bars to change the annotation scale. You can minimize the steps to annotate a drawing by using annotative styles. Annotative text, dimension, and multileader styles create annotative objects. The dialog boxes used to define these objects contain an Annotative check box where you can make the styles annotative. Annotative styles display a special icon before their names in dialog boxes and the Properties palette. You should specify the Paper Height value for any annotative text styles you create. The Paper Height setting specifies the height of the text in paper space. Note if you have specified the Paper Height value for a dimension or multileader style, this setting overrides the text style Paper Height setting. If you redefine styles to be annotative or no annotative, existing objects that reference those styles are not automatically updated to reflect the annotative property of the style or definition. Use the ANNOUPDATE command to update the existing objects to the current Annotative properties of the style. When you change the Style property of an existing object (whether it is annotative or no annotative), the objects annotative properties will match that of the new style. If the style does not have a fixed height (the Height value is 0), the paper height of the object is calculated based on the objects current height and the annotation scale.

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TO CREATE A NEW ANNOTATIVE TEXT STYLE: Click Format menu Text Style In the Text Style dialog box, click New. In the New Text Style dialog box, give a name to the Text Style. (e. g. Area Names) Click OK. In the Font Section. Font Name Times New Roman Font Style Regular In the Size Section. o Annotation Check o Match Orientation to the Layout Uncheck o Paper text Height Optional In the Effects Section. o Upside Down Uncheck o Backwards Uncheck o Width Factor 1.00 o Oblique Angle 0 Click Apply. (Optional) Click Set Current to set this style as the current text style. Click Close. Command STYLE.

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TO ADD / DELETE SCALES TO THE ANY ANNOTATIVE OBJECTS: Select all the Annotative Objects, which you want to Add / Delete scales. Right click on the selected objects. Click on the Annotative Objects Scale and Select Add / Delete Scales. Annotation Object Scale Dialog box will Appears. In that to Add Scales click on Add and select the Scales from the list and click ok. To delete Scales Select the Scale that you want to delete and click delete And click ok after you complete all the above Steps.

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TO SET ANNOTATION FOR THE DIMENSIONS: Go to Format tab and Select Dimension Style Dimension style manager Dialog box will appear. Select the Dimension Style which you want to set as Annotative. Click Modify. Go to Fit tab. In the Scale for Dimension features section. Check the Annotative and click OK Close the Dimension style Manager after Completing all the Above steps.

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TO SET ANNOTATION FOR THE MULTILEADER OBJECTS: Go to Format menu. And select Multileader style Multileader style manager dialog box will appear. Select the style which you want to set annotation. Click on Modify Click on Leader Structure tab In the Scale section. Check the Annotative and click OK Close the Multileader style Manager after Completing all the above steps.

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