Annotation - text i model or paper space?

Hi,

I am exporting a LisCAD file to AutoCAD and get all points and contour heights with it. I'm not sure how annotation works, that you only should add text and dimensions in paper space...?

Will it cause any problems if I then add symbols and a table describing the symbols, in model space? Or what happens really with text in model space?

I am confused!

/Arty

Annotative text, dimensions, hatches, blocks and multileaders belong in model space not in your layout.

If you have chosen to put text and dimensions in your layout instead they should be drawn at their normal size (1:1 scale). For example, if you want text that prints out at 1/8" in height that is what you use.

Most of the time I place the text and dimensions in Paper Space, mostly depends on what field you work in.

In all of our fabrication drawings our text and dimensions are placed in our layout.

We have CAD drawings dating back to 1985 some of which have everything in model space since that was how it was done back then.

Right. So you can do a bit of both then...?

In our projects eveything is in the model, and then the whole lot is put in a layout and plotted from there.

Right. So you can do a bit of both then...?

 

In our projects eveything is in the model, and then the whole lot is put in a layout and plotted from there.

Yes, you can do that. I wouldn't recommend it, but if it works fine for you, carry on with it.

Yeah it works fine. Why don't you recommend doing it this way? As this seems to be the wrong way of doing it I'd like to know how it should be done.

I'm working at a Surveyor office and the drawings hold planned building sites with property boundary, bearings and distances and lot number or it can be boundarys of land areas with contours and height of these and points of surface around the area.

The surveyors are working in LisCAD which drawings I export to AutoCAd where I make the data readble and pretty. It's not often I have to add data, it may be informal text as tables for symbols or a sentence to make parts of the area more clear to the reader.

We do send the files to our clients but I have never got negative feedback in how the data is presented.

I can't think of any good reason to first do everything in model space then bring it all into paper space.

If you want all your text and dimensions in model space then use annotative scaling. The only text you'll have in paper space will be that which appears in your title block.

Yes, you can do that. I wouldn't recommend it, but if it works fine for you, carry on with it.

Things like drawing titles and the like I do in paperspace.

When adding in notes, it's open season; either way works.

It's the way my dinosaur runs things.

Once you bring all your surveying geometry over into paper space you have effectively gone back to the method of drawing "to scale" as would have been done on a drafting board. Why would anyone these days torture themselves like that? If your drawing is a schematic or scale is a non-factor then by all means go ahead and draw EVERYTHING in paper space. Treat it like a sheet of paper that you just tore off a pad.

It's called model space for a reason guys. I was taught 15 years ago that the only thing that goes on paper space is the title block and associated text.

There are different schools of thought on that and they all have their place. It's not one size fits all.

There are different schools of thought on that and they all have their place. It's not one size fits all.

Opinions are like @$$holes....everyone has one. Just stating mine.