Annotation Scale

[smooth shoes]

I'm new to this whole annotative scales thing, so bare with me while I try to explain this the best way I know how...

I've created text strings with different annotative scales..

I want some of them to show up in one viewport, but not in others and vice versa...

Any ideas or comments would be appreciated...

Thanks in advance!

[smooth shoes]

Nevermind...

I just answered my own question....

It was a little toggle button towards the bottom of the screen..

[irneb]

For those of us who can't understand what you've figured out for yourself:

The VP will only show those Annotative Objects set to display at the same scale. So if you've got a dim set to display at 1:100 & 1:50, it will show in any VP set to those scales. However, a VP set to 1:20 will not show that particular dim.

[smooth shoes]

continuing in my own world here.....


I want to have a block inserted in a drawing that's automatically in annotative form... is there any way to do this without defining the block every time??

[RobertB]

I want to have a block inserted in a drawing that's automatically in annotative form... is there any way to do this without defining the block every time??Yes. Use BEdit on the block (or drawing that forms the block). Without selecting any objects, use the Properties palette to change the Annotative property.

[irneb]

After that, you can WBLOCK that block out (or use Design Center to import from original drawing). Then when you insert it into another DWG, it automatically assumes the scale set as current (CANNOSCALE). Also if you Copy-n-Paste a block from one DWG to another - it takes the scales set originally as well as the new DWG's CANNOSCALE.

[smooth shoes]

Ok.. I can understand that... My next wuestion is...

When I create the "block" drawing that i want to insert into other drawings, I cannot make the objects in this drawing a block because when I insert it into another drawing, it says that the block cannot be inserted because it references itself...

I'm using ACAD w/ Carlson Survey 2008...

I have found a command that does I want it to do... "annotativedwg"

Does this work in regular ACAD?

[davidmatyas]

A block cannot have a nested block with the same name. It seems there is a naming issue and thats the reason for the "...references itself problem." Rename the block in the destination drawing to see if that produces the results your looking for.

[irneb]

Ok.. I can understand that... My next wuestion is...

When I create the "block" drawing that i want to insert into other drawings, I cannot make the objects in this drawing a block because when I insert it into another drawing, it says that the block cannot be inserted because it references itself...

I'm using ACAD w/ Carlson Survey 2008...

I have found a command that does I want it to do... "annotativedwg"

Does this work in regular ACAD?Yes that's in Vanilla 2008. Thanks for that, didn't know that myself. I would have added a Dynamic Block property so the DWG asks to open in Block Editor so I can set Annotative in the Properties Palette. But with this setting negates that - no need to have dummy dynamic parameters.

Unsure what you mean by block entities within a block drawing. You shouldn't copy a block into a new drawing to create that block to be inserted. Simply select the block, then WBLOCK (this should automatically set the filname to the same as the block's name). When you INSERT from a file, it reads that file into the current drawing as if it is a block in itself. So if you have a block named X in file X.DWG then inserting X.DWG will read a new block called X with a block contained in it called X - therefore it will fail.

Either explode & purge the block X in X.DWG, or WBLOCK the block X to file X.DWG. You could of course also have several blocks within a DWG then use Design Center to insert only the needed ones into your current drawing - this is a simple way of creating a Block Library.