Issue copying and pasting callouts/annotations

[john.lee137662]

Hi I am trying to copy dimensions, callouts, annotations from one dwg and paste them into another dwg. My issue is that after pasting, the scale of some parts of the callouts become very small. The text of the callout (item number/sheet number) appears correctly, but the drawing portion (the circle or arrow) becomes microscopic.

I am relatively new to autocad, so I could be missing something terribly obvious, however I have searched the forums and googled the issue to no avail. Based on what I have found, I checked my INSUNITS, INSUNITSDEFxxxx, and -DWGUNITS, and do not think those are the problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[neje]

check and learn about annotation objects.
You probably have a diff scale set in the destination drawing.

[john.lee137662]

Thanks for the response. I've checked the annotation scales as well, and I do not think that is the source of the problem either. I've attached 2 dwgs to better show my issue. DWG_A is the original drawing and DWG_B is what happens when I paste the contents of DWG_A in.

Some of the annotations are fine, most are affected though. What's strange is that in the instance of a callout, the text stays at the correct scale, while only the circle becomes tiny, even though they are part of a block. What's stranger is that when I enter block editor to try and scale up the circle, the circle appears at the correct size but only in block editor.

I suspect something maybe wrong with the original blocks. A work-around I have found is exploding the block in DWG_A, then copying and pasting into DWG_B, then recreating the block in DWG_B. Nothing funny happens if I do this. This method doesn't really help me at all, but I thought it could be a clue to what is occuring.

[dkoch]

Odd. The Annotation Plot Size is the same in both drawings (1/8") and the current drawing scale is also 1:1 in both drawings. Was that true at the time when you added the symbols in DWG_A and pasted the symbols in DWG_B? Not that it should matter much, since the content is not annotative.

The non-text graphics of the A006 symbol shrank by a factor of 128. That happens to be the scale factor for 3/32" = 1'-0". Any reason to think that that scale played any role in the creation of the callouts at any point in time?

How were the callouts created? What is the source content - all custom, or is this based on any of the out-of-the-box ACA content? Is there an AEC Content file involved anywhere? Any chance that DWG_B file already had block definitions for the callout blocks that were, for some reason, 128 times smaller than those of DWG_A. Attributes within a block definition carry their own values for height, etc. - which may not be the same as the original block definition. Running ATTSYNC on the A006 block in your DWG_B restores the attributes heights to the original block definition specifications, and shrinks them down by what appears to be the same scale factor of 128, so I am guessing that you have dueling block definitions under the same A006 name.