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StephenJ
2010-04-06, 03:18 PM
I can not find the solution to my issue of annotative dims, blocks and text resizing themselves in paper space.

I am working on a small project and have multiple scale drawings in my dwg file. For example I have a 1/4" plan and details that are at 3" and 1 1/2". Everything was working fine when I started but, about a week ago I changed the annotative scale option on the lower right menu bar from 1/4" to 3" because I was tired of matching properties on my leaders. When I went to switch the scale back to 1/4" all my annotative blocks, dims, and text scaled to the 1/4" so when I went to work on my detail in model space I have to switch the scale back to 3" because the test was showing at 1/4" scale.

Before I initially changed the annotative scale option my 1/4" data was displaying at 1/4" and my 3" data was displaying at 3" even though the scale option was set to 1/4" on model space. Is there a setting or system variable that lets me view the annotative data simultaneously at different scales (their paper space scale) in model space?

Thanks

StephenJ
2010-04-08, 04:28 PM
I figured it out after spending some time researching the AutoCAD help and playing around with a lot of settings.

What it came down to was my ANNOAUTOSCALE was turned on (located at the bottom right of the status bar) I had to turn it off and then on the Annotate menu - annotation scaling select add/delete scales. After selecting add/delete scales I selected all the objects that were drawn at a specific scale then hit enter and then on the list I removed the extra scales associated with those objects. I had to repeat this multiple times because once for each scale of objects.

The drawing is working fine after doing the process. I can change the annotation scale from the list on the status bar and my associative objects keep their scale.