Annotation Family Scale?

[trythefly]

Why is it that Annotation families are so tiny? When I bring one into a family that is 1/2" = 1' the anno. family is roughly (but not exactly) 25x larger. I cannot find scale controls in anno. families.

[MNsnowtaTy]

I've wondered that too. I wish you could set the scale of an annotation family so that it could easily be changed from the annotation family.

[trythefly]

Since 99% of our drawings are created at 1/8 scale I just divided the annotation family geometry by 96.

[james.klatt]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question. Or maybe i'm forgetting how I did mine. All I did was in the annotation family made the text or symbol the actual printed size. As long as you are placing the families within the views and not on the sheets they should always print the same/desired size. I.E. 3/32" text in an annotation family no matter what scale the view will appear 3/32" on the printed sheet. Let me know if I'm way off here.

[JoelLondenberg]

Jimmy's right. Everything that is annotation is created printed size. All views have an associated scale, so the annotations already know what size to be in order to print correctly. Even if you do place it on a sheet directly, the sheet itself is scale 1=1 so the annotation is correct.

[Andre Carvalho]

Why is it that Annotation families are so tiny? When I bring one into a family that is 1/2" = 1' the anno. family is roughly (but not exactly) 25x larger. I cannot find scale controls in anno. families.

If you draw your annotation family with 1" height, for instance, and bring it into your model family, the annotation family will always have the same 1" height when printed at the scale you are. Your model won't. Maybe that explains why your annotation family is 25x larger than it should be if you compare with your model.

Andre Carvalho