Comments on: Introduction to Annotation Scale

By: Edwin Prakoso

Edwin Prakoso — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:11:00 +0000

Have you tried the next article? Annotation scaling is probably a bit hard to understand at the first time. You need to do several exercise before you get comfortable with it.
You may want to try adding scales manually instead of automatic scaling.

By: Satantra

Satantra — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:26:00 +0000

Hello Edwin. I am following the instruction and it worked the first time in the drawing you have posted here, but when I am trying to add another scales acept these two and fallowing all the steps when i am getting to apdate dimentions-all enter, my dimentions are still highlited aftef that and I press enter again or spacebar or esc the dimentions are returnig to the previous unscaled condition… what am I doing wrong?

By: Edwin Prakoso

Edwin Prakoso — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:26:00 +0000

If you set the paper size to 2mm, then that’s the correct size for 1:50 scale. You may want to try to plot to DWF or PDF to give you better idea how it works. If you think the size is not correct, do you use ISO or other metric template? Using imperial template for metric drawing can be confusing…

By: IsKiwi

IsKiwi — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:48:00 +0000

sorry to bother, but I just can’t get this thing… I’m an autoCAD student, so I’ve never learned any other method. Annotation is the only one I’ve ever tried. Well the problem is, when I’m drawing a floorplan for example, and I write the text as an annotative style I’ve created, and I set the paper size to 2.0, the text gets simply huge in model space for a 1:50 scale (i draw in real size and then scale things down to plot). I’ve never really plotted anything so far, and I don’t know if it the text would come out at the right size. At the moment what bothers me most is the text size overwhelming all my model. Am I doing something wrong? or is that what it’s supposed to be? thank you for your attention and sorry for any grammar error (English is not my first language)

By: Acidlex

Acidlex — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:04:00 +0000

you have to type DIMSCALE and set it to what ever scale you need on a PAPERSPACE, if 1:50 then set DIMSCALE to 50… and so on

By: Joe Di Paola

Joe Di Paola — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:02:00 +0000

do you have it with autoCAD 2012? i dont get it :( my numbers are too small to read. How do I change that?

By: Rmaye

Rmaye — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:28:00 +0000

Is it posible to have the Annotative dimensions NOT go really large when you are editing them through viewports? It gets really frustrating in long projects where you have to often add or remove dimensions and readjust the existing ones.

By: Edwin Prakoso

Edwin Prakoso — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:34:00 +0000

That’s what annotation scaling is for. You will get consistent annotation size when you plot them.