annotation text usage

[rkent]

When you go into PS, go into the viewport, do a zoom, extents, exit the viewport, select the viewport border, using properties, find the annotation scale, use the drop down to set it at 1/4"=1'-0".

There are other ways to do this, just trying to find the easiest to describe.

[muck]

I had to set the annotation scale 1/4"=1' before in the viewport before
I could see the annotation text.

I see a annotation text setting in model space and annotation text as a view
port property variable. In the view port there is also a scale variable.

So what is all the scales for and how do they relate and work ?

Please explain all the annotation & scale variables.

Thank you,

[muck]

We have an annotation scale in model. We have annotative scale property
in PS view port. We have a scale property in paperspace view ports.
What is all the annotative scale for? How do they relate?
thank you,

[lpseifert]

Did you get a chance to read the reference materials suggested in post #5? It's all explained there.

[rkent]

MS annotation scale (annoscale) is there to display annotation objects
at the currently set annoscale.
PS annoscale is there to display annotation objects at the currently set
viewport annoscale.
Viewport scale is there to display the geometry (any non-annoscale objects)
in MS to a plot scale.
The purpose of all of this.
In MS you can set annoscale objects to one or many annoscales, say 1/4" and 1/8".
You would do this because you may have a plan view in 1/8" plot scale and want
the text to show up the correct size in PS for plotting. You may also have
an enlarged plan at 1/4" plot scale. Now you will want the text to still
display and plot to the same height in PS, so you set the viewport scale to
1/8" and the annoscale to 1/8". Only the annoscale objects set to 1/8" will
display.
If you set the viewport scale to 1/4", this does not set the annoscale for that
viewport to 1/4", you must also set the annoscale for that viewport. However if
you set the annoscale for that viewport the viewport scale will scale to that
same value automatically.