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Using annotative scaling in your AutoCAD drawings

Using annotative scaling in your AutoCAD drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using annotative scaling in your AutoCAD drawings

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our GF-1031 Southeast Madison.dwg file, and as you can see, we're in the ISO A1 landscape layout tab. Now we've got two viewports. This one is at 1-to-100. If you hover over it, as you can see, standard scale 1-to-100. This viewport here, if I hover over it, is at a standard scale of 1-to-40. Now that's great and what we want to do is be consistent with our dimension annotation in each viewport. Now when I say consistent, you want the arrowheads the same size, the dimension text the same size, and so on. So at the moment, our dimensions are displaying nicely in the 1-to-100 viewport, and there's a reason for that. Jump back to the model tab. If we zoom in on, let's say this dimension here, the 9296, if I select that dimension and then right click and go to properties, let's have a look at this dimension and see what properties it has. So if we look there, can you see the Dim style is M_Arrowheads_mm? It is annotative and it's using an annotative scale…

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