Annotive Text

How does it work?

Go here: http://heidihewett.blogs.com/my_weblog/annotation/index.html

Scroll down towards the bottom until you get to Annotation 101 and work your way up. The six(6) blogs are perfect tutorials to handle Automatic Annotation scaling.

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In short; when you setup a style for annotative text make sure you check the box that says Annotative Text in the Size area. Then where it ask for a height input the size you would like to see it in paper space. Set the new style as current and add text. Now select the annotative scale (lower right hand of screen) and the text will appear to that scale based on your settings. If it doesn't update when you choose a scale regen the drawing. This is assuming you put all of your text in model space. Paper space has no need of annotative text. Do a search on YouTube for 'autocad annotative text'. There is a few there to help out.

Maybe this will help also - http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showpost.php?p=185632&postcount=14

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so if i set my paper space text to 2.5. it should do the text in 250mm @ 1:100?

Basically the way it works, is that when you put your annotative text in modelspace, you set 'annotation scales' to it, so if your planning a 1:100 viewport in paperspace, you need to ensure your annotative text in modelspace has a 1:100 scale assigned to it otherwise it will not show up in the viewport. You set your paperspace text height to 2.5 (plotted height) and it will print to that regardless, it's more a 'modelspace assignment and viewport scale' thing then anything. Hope that makes sense, or at least that is how I understand it. I use it regularily in this format.