tom1l21 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Maybe I'm missing something but I don't seem to understand the fundamental way in which blocks work. I work in many drawings that use viewports of varying scales. There is a symbol for testpits that I use and what I want is to insert a block that has annotative properties so that when I change the viewport scale, the block will show at its correct size vs paper space. Anyways, I created this block and saved it to my documents. It is all drawn on layer 0 and I included an attribute that prompts for a testpit name (TP-x) etc when inserted. The problem is though when I insert this block into a drawing, it is not annotative. The only way I've been able to use an annotative block is to draw a new block in the current drawing I'm in, block it, and check off annotative. I don't' want to do this, I want the block that I have saved in my documents to be annotative when inserted and prompt me for the tag name. Is there something I am missing here? I've attached the block in question. Thanks. TESTPIT-ANNO-TOM.dwg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Let's give this bump and see what happens. Anyone able to answer Tom's question? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbeardcad Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 I too would like to know this. I thought this would be something common. I just don't know how to do it. I'm still foggy on the whole annotative thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Guess I'm on my own. Warning: I'm no expert when it comes to Annotative Scaling. Maybe you would both benefit from David Cohn's AutoDesk University course entitled, "Annotation Scaling - Making Drawings Smarter with Intelligent Text." I've provided a link to a PDF below. A section about blocks starts on the bottom of page 10. http://www.dscohn.com/AU/handouts/GD315-1P%20Annotation%20Scaling-DOC.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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