This is close, but there is a trick or two. It is better to think of each scale as a multiple of mathematical roughness. The trick is to maintain the same relative level of roughness with all entities at a given scale. Text, symbols, lines with text. There is a process of prepping the CAD file that eliminates a lot of work and you should never try to set this up with a busy drawing first go. Use the legend tool and create a legend from a good drawing. It is located in the annotation menu near the North arrow, scale bar if you are not familiar. Create a legend with all entities and draw it. If it is ugly, you have a lot of work to do before annotative drawing will be good for you. Missing fonts? Using old templates? The drawings must be clean and staff must be visual thinkers. I do not use annotative text. I put text in paper space, use psltscale turned on with good line definitions for line spacing and no missing fonts. I use viewport color overrides to grey out anything not important for that sheet. Annotative text is nice if you survey and have to provide enlarged views often with a lot of labeling. An as-built for a water service connection is one potential application.
The “ghosting” you are seeing is controlled by the variable “SELECTANNODISPLAY”. Type that at the command line and turn it Off in IntelliCAD or set to 0 if using AutoCAD.
I've been waiting for this video. Thank you! The only problem I'm having is with MTEXT in which I almost exclusively work. All of my settings are set up in the video. When I draw Standard Text, the annotative properties work as demonstrated. However, when I draw MTEXT, the model space text height defaults to the intended paperspace height. I use a paperspace height of 0.1, so MTEXT defaults to 0.1 when I draw in modelspace. How do I solve this?
Make sure your current style is annotative and then also Check your Mtext settings that should be showing up in a contextual ribbon (if turned on). They can get disassociated with the text settings. I can't share a screen shot here but look carefully and make sure that you see you are indeed creating annotative Mtext. You should see in the upper left area of the ribbon an Annotative toggle. It should be highlighted On.
This is close, but there is a trick or two. It is better to think of each scale as a multiple of mathematical roughness. The trick is to maintain the same relative level of roughness with all entities at a given scale. Text, symbols, lines with text. There is a process of prepping the CAD file that eliminates a lot of work and you should never try to set this up with a busy drawing first go. Use the legend tool and create a legend from a good drawing. It is located in the annotation menu near the North arrow, scale bar if you are not familiar. Create a legend with all entities and draw it. If it is ugly, you have a lot of work to do before annotative drawing will be good for you. Missing fonts? Using old templates? The drawings must be clean and staff must be visual thinkers. I do not use annotative text. I put text in paper space, use psltscale turned on with good line definitions for line spacing and no missing fonts. I use viewport color overrides to grey out anything not important for that sheet. Annotative text is nice if you survey and have to provide enlarged views often with a lot of labeling. An as-built for a water service connection is one potential application.
using viewports - when I change my dwg scale under drawing settings my viewport scale does not automatically change...any suggestions - thanks
Viewports do not automatically update when you change the annotation scale in Model Space. This allows for multiple viewports at different scales.
using the demo anno text style...when I click on it, I am seeing shadow text at different text heights....can I turn this of
The “ghosting” you are seeing is controlled by the variable “SELECTANNODISPLAY”. Type that at the command line and turn it Off in IntelliCAD or set to 0 if using AutoCAD.
Type SELECTIONANNODISPLAY at the command line and turn it off. (set to 0 if using AutoCAD)
I've been waiting for this video. Thank you! The only problem I'm having is with MTEXT in which I almost exclusively work. All of my settings are set up in the video. When I draw Standard Text, the annotative properties work as demonstrated. However, when I draw MTEXT, the model space text height defaults to the intended paperspace height. I use a paperspace height of 0.1, so MTEXT defaults to 0.1 when I draw in modelspace. How do I solve this?
Make sure your current style is annotative and then also Check your Mtext settings that should be showing up in a contextual ribbon (if turned on). They can get disassociated with the text settings. I can't share a screen shot here but look carefully and make sure that you see you are indeed creating annotative Mtext. You should see in the upper left area of the ribbon an Annotative toggle. It should be highlighted On.