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Overview of Scaling Annotations
Objects that are commonly used to annotate drawings have a property called
Annotative on page 2289. This property allows you to automate the process of
scaling annotations so that they plot or display at the correct size on the paper.
Instead of creating multiple annotations at different sizes and on separate
layers, you can turn on the annotative property by object or by style, and set
the annotation scale for model or layout viewports. The annotation scale
controls the size of the annotative objects relative to the model geometry in
the drawing.
The following objects are commonly used to annotate drawings and contain
an annotative property:
■ Text
■ Dimensions
■ Hatches
■ Tolerances
■ Multileaders
■ Blocks
■ Attributes
When the Annotative property for these objects is turned on (set to Yes), these
objects are called annotative objects.
You define a paper size for annotative objects. The
annotation scale on page
2289 you set for layout viewports and model space determines the size of the
annotative objects in those spaces.
Save to Legacy Drawing File Format
Set the system variable SAVEFIDELITY to 1 when you save a drawing that
contains annotative objects to a legacy drawing file format (AutoCAD 2007
or earlier). This preserves the visual fidelity of the drawing when it is opened
in a release earlier than AutoCAD 2008 by saving individual representations
of each scale of each annotative object. The individual objects are saved to
layers that are used to organize objects of the same scale. Setting SAVEFIDELITY
to 0, when opening the drawing in AutoCAD 2008 or later release, results in
improved performance. For more information about saving a drawing to a
previous release, see
Save a Drawing on page 238.
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