From the course: AutoCAD: 3D Modeling for Mechanical Designs
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Updating viewport scales and annotative dimensions - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: 3D Modeling for Mechanical Designs
Updating viewport scales and annotative dimensions
- [Instructor] We're staying in our metal plate annotation .DWG file. And you can see that I'm in the layout tab the metal plate GA and details layout tab. Now we talked about different dimension methods. So we've dimensioned some in the model tab here like so in our top view for our plan view in our layout tab. Saying see those dimensions there are using an annotation scale of one to five which then matches in the layout tab the viewport scale here, one to five. So they display quite happily in that viewport. The problem you have there is if I now change the scale of this viewport what I can do is select the edge of the viewport like that and then I'll just right click and go to properties and I can change the scale of the viewport like so. So you can see here miscellaneous display locked no annotation scale one to five standard scale there is one to five. So let's change that perhaps to one to eight like so. So change…
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