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Dimensioning & Annotation / Using Annotative Scaling




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OK, let's have a look at how this Annotative Scaling works. I'm in the GA Plan Layout right now and I've got my viewports here. So I've got my Isometric View, my Side View, my Front View. Now, there's my GA Plan. If I select that viewport and look down at the Status Bar, the Viewport Scale is 1 to 50. So if I click there and change that to 1 to 100, what happens? Obviously everything gets a bit smaller because it's a larger scale but the dimensions have disappeared. Let me just hit Escape there to deselect that viewport and go back to the Model Tab. My dimensions are still there. So why are they not showing in the GA Plan viewport there when I go to GA Plan? That's because they're not using the appropriate annotative scale. If I click in Model, you'll see that the Annotative Scale is 1 to 50 there for those dimensions. What I need to do now is add another annotative scale to those dimensions. So if I just select each dimension, just click on each one as we go, like so, or you could do a little crossing selection like that to get all those and then you've only got to go 1 and 2 and 3. Now, when I hover over them, can you see there's only one annotative symbol? That little blue triangle symbol. I'm going to right click now and go to Properties. Now, I don't actually have to change the properties either. I don't have to go to the Properties Palette. Look up here. It knows they're Annotative. I'm going to go there to Add Delete Scales. Now, at the moment we've only got the 1 to 50 scale. If I add 1 to 100, which is what I changed the viewport scale to and OK that and then OK it again, the dimensions now have two scales. If I hover there, look. Two scales now. Can you see that? Two Annotative Symbols. That means that there's more than one Annotative Scale applied to those dimensions. If I go to the GA Plan now, you'll notice that on the 1 to 100 there up here, if I select the Viewport and change the scale back to 1 to 50, they also show the Annotative 1 to 50 dimensions as well. It's quite clever, isn't it? So you can set in your Model Tab your dimensions and you can set however many scales you want against those either dimensions, locks, hatching as well is another one, text is another one as well and multiline text. They can all have annotative properties. Dimensions is good because you can place those dimensions once in the Model Space and scale them in any number of tabs or viewports. So at 1 to 50 there, they're showing and if I went down to 1 to 100 again on that viewport down here on the Status Bar, they would also show because they've also go an Annotative Scale of 1 to 100 applied to them. I make that 1 to 50 inks. It's all a bit small otherwise. Now, you'll notice there as well, just another little quick change. I can change the View in that particular viewport. That viewport at the moment has the Conceptual Visual Style. What I'm going to do is double click inside the viewport and I'm going to change the Visual Style up here on the View Tab. I'm going to change that to my 2D Wireframe View and it just looks a lot clearer there, as you can see and you can see all your openings and all your dimensions a lot more clearly but it maintains the Conceptual View in the other viewports. Double click outside the viewport there to deactivate and then you can save your drawing. So we've done Annotative Scaling and just changed the view slightly there so that our scale dimensions are easier to see.

Tutorial Information

Course: Autodesk AutoCAD 2011 for Architects
Author: Shaun Bryant
SKU: 34134
ISBN: 1-936334-33-X
Release Date: 2010-06-22
Duration: 8.5 hrs / 109 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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