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Now I'm currently in my Annotation Scale Layout Tab that we've been working with and you'll notice that I've got rid of the three viewports around this Workspaces Viewport here. Now, I've done that for a reason. What I'm going to do is I'm going to make this viewport bigger so I'm going to click on that grip there, drag it up to the intersection end point there. Now, if I hit Escape there, I've got a big viewport that hasn't really got much in it. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to change the scale of my viewport itself. So if I just pan a little bit like that, notice I haven't activated the viewport. Remember; double click inside the viewport and then pan. OK, zoom in so that you can see your Workspaces there and then roll up on the wheel to zoom in even further. So you're panning and zooming and just tweaking it around a bit. What you might need to do, for example, is go to your View Tab. You can still do something like a zoom window inside the active viewport, which is something that I do sometimes like that and that way you've got everything fitting in the viewport. So there's my Workspaces there in that viewport. Now, my text is still showing, my annotative text is there. Now, let's have a look at the scale down here. It's naught.naught two one nine double five. Let's go for one to 50 there. Will that work? Absolutely perfect. Now, as soon as I set that to a standard scale though, I lose the text because that text is not set to a scale of one to 50. It does not have an annotative scale of one to 50 applied to it but I want to place that text all the way around those workstations so that I can start numbering them. So I'm going to double click outside the viewport to deactivate it and I'm going to do my annotative scaling from the Model Tab. So I go straight into Model. Look; there's all those scales there. Now, I don't need all of those scales so what I'm going to do, I'm going to actually delete all of the horizontal bits of text. So I click there, Delete. Click there, Delete. They've all gone. So the last one left is that one to 75 that we created in the previous exercise but what I want to do is I want to copy that. So what I'm going to do here, I know that it's one to 50 so I'll change that to one to 50 straightaway like so. So any text I place now will work with a one to 50 viewport. But I'm also going to change this. So I click here, right click, Annotative Object Scale. I now add the current scale to my Annotative Object. Notice it changes straightaway. I didn't even have to think about that. I changed it to one to 50 there, selected it there, right click, Annotative Object Scale, Add Current Scale. Now, if I go to Add Delete Scales, you'll see it's added the one to 50 to the Scale List. I don't need one to 75 anymore because I don't have a one to 75 viewport available so I'll delete that scale. So the only scale I've got left now is that one to 50. Now, the trick here is great, I can do all of the work in Model. One to 50 is there. My text is there. It's annotative. All I need to do is copy that text. So I click on it, right click, Copy Selection and specify a base point. Now, I'm going to cheat a little bit. I'm going to use the corner here, just there. If I zoom in there's a corner there. See it like that? That one there? And I'm now going to just zoom along and pan as I go and I'm just going to place a bit of annotative text as I go on each of those end point snaps. Now, I know this is a bit laborious and a bit boring but this is the sort of thing you have to do on a day-to-day basis and trust me; it's never exciting. A lot of AutoCAD drafting can be very mundane. Copying, pasting, editing like so. Always a good thing to get a good MP3 player or an iPod. Always works; music is good with CAD, it always is. Now I'm just going to do that top row there, otherwise I'm going to take up way too much of this exercise's time. So I'll press Enter there to confirm that copy. Now, let's go and have a look at one of these. Now, if I hover over it, it's still annotative. Can you see that there? They're all annotative. Now, I'm still in the Model, haven't gone back to the Layout Tab yet. I don't have to because all I do now is double click there, I edit that. That's going to be 60. So I make sure that I use the Arrow Keys there and put 60 into that one, Enter. I then select the next bit of annotation to edit, click in there. That's going to be 61, Enter. Select this one. This is going to be 62. So as I go along, I'm just sequentially numbering my rooms. And then as I come in here, last one, it's going to be 63 and Enter and then Enter again to finish. So 59, 60, 61, 62, 63. They're all annotative. I've done all the work in the Model Tab. Now, quick sanity check. We know that that one was set to one to 50. What about this one? Click on it, right click, Annotative Object Scale. Just go to Add Delete Scales; it's got one to 50 as well so I can cancel that. Now here's the test. I go back to Annotation Scale and low and behold, look; one, two, three, four, five, all the right size, all set up with my one to 50 viewport scale here and they're working with an annotation scale in the Model of one to 50 as well. So everything works. Everything ties up. All the scaling ties up. The visibility of those annotative objects in the one to 50 viewport ties up as well. They're there because the viewport is one to 50; the annotation scale is one to 50 so they both know where they need to be.