AutoCAD Tutorial - Using Annotation Scaling

This video shows how to use annotation scaling in AutoCAD to simplify the process of keeping dimensions, text, leaders, multileaders, or hatches at a correct scale when displaying them in multiple viewports.

[@yuririchardson4250]

I have watched several other videos on this subject....and this is the very best I have come across in clearly defining the problem and showing the solution. Thank a lot. (A new subscriber.)

[@Onshape.Learning.Projects]

When you are working in a viewport, the scale is always referenced to the actual size of the object as it is drawn in model space. The point of annotative scaling is that I may have several viewports on a layout and each of these may use a different scale to show more or less detail, but I want the dimensions and text to be the same size in all the viewports.

[@kurtauzzie]

Well done on explaining this topic, I like your teaching style. Keep up the good work !

[@ellynchoi2962]

Is it possible to use Annotative Scaling for multileader?

[@TheTemplehoff]

finally understand anno scaling, THANK YOU!

[@sunnychien7178]

How do i know what Scale all three viewport's scales are consistent to? Like the refernce scale?

[@EdGuila]

I did everything you did and it won't adjust when I change scale. It used to a month ago, but just stopped working. What do I need to do to get it to work again?

[@sagarsrinivas457]

how to calculate (over all scale of) in FIT setting. in my drawing its showing 1.000 and the drawing is in meters. and can we apply annotation to an existing dimension style or do i have to create a new style.

[@amirbehesht]

thank for the great teaching.

[@JONATHAN1874]

Hello,
Do you think you can make a video on how to make a section line, section bubble appears the same i different scale in viewport? Perhaps you can send me an instruction on how to do it? That is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[@sunnychien7178]

Yes. But when you mention "same size in all view ports" what size is that? Where do i set that particular size? or is that size the text height (for example) that i adjust in properties, after rightclicking the text ?
Also do you have a cideo to clarify "line type scales" and "global scale factor;" i often xref two or more drawings and hidden lines turn out as solid. I have trouble synchronising all three drwwings individual objects scales and their own glibal factors.

[@Onshape.Learning.Projects]

You have dimensioned the object in model space. The dimensions are displayed in model space according to the scale that you choose there. If you have set annotative scaling, you have also choosen several other scales to use to display the dimensions. These different size dimensions are created and hidden so that you only see the dimensions at the scale you have currently turned on. When you go to layout and look at the object in the viewport, you are seeing the dimensions as they are currently displayed in model space. If you click on the viewport and change scale, it will hide the old scale and show the new scale. It does this so that as you zoom (scale the object for a more detailed view) in the view port, the dimension objects and text will not get bigger. So if I want text to be .25" on the printed page, I create a text style choosing the font and size. In the Dimension style I set the text to that text style. I then set the dimensions to annotative and add all the scales that I would possibly use in any of my viewports. Now in the layout, if I set the first viewport to 1/4"=1'0", then the text will be .25" and in the next viewport I zoom to show details at 1/2"=1'0" the text will still remain at .25" high rather than twice as big as will happen without using annotative scaling. In annotative dimensions it not only scales the text, but also the arrowheads and all the other objects and spaces that make up the dimensions.

[@dannybrattoli7123]

Why when I use my annotation tool there are no numbers displayed in my model?

[@kajinek48]

very helpfull, thanks

[@qamarikhaymary4532]

Thank you!

[@Dantellezv]

You'd love Archicad...

[@grinman77]

Inches and feet?! what is this 1971?

[@relakhsingh7570]

nice

[@niory]

I lose focus when you mention scales in feet and inches !! please can you mention them both in feet and Meters ?! inches and Cm ?!!

[@haroldprice1030]

I don't get it ....I don't understand the purpose.....

[@beisiknikneimas]

didnt understood

[@kathleenmaclennan787]

stupid imperial measurements

[@jecadros]

Incomplete explanation, needs to refer all other steps to accomplish to make annotative works.