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Using annotative scaling

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Using annotative scaling

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We're staying in our gf1031southeastmadison.dwg file and in the previous video we placed a couple of scaled viewports in our layout tab, our ISO A1 landscape layout tab. Now in the 1 to 100 viewport here you'll notice the dimensions are appearing. Now that's because they're set to a known annotation scale. If I jump back to the model tab now you'll notice here can you see the annotation scale is 1 to 100 so basically any dimensions, annotative dimensions that I place they will be a scale of 1 to 100 and they'll appear quite happily in the 1 to 100 viewport. If I hover over one of these dimensions select it, right-click and go to properties you can see there look it's using an annotative dimension style which is M for metric arrowheads millimeters it is annotative and it's using 1 to 100 so that's great those overall dimensions appear quite nicely in the 1 to 100 viewport but I want to add some dimensions that will only appear in my 1 to 30 viewport of the restroom so zoom in on the…

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