Annotative text selection question

[Organic]

I haven't really used annotative text before although was using it for a project yesterday. After a bit of mucking around with scales, I got it working for the msot part.

 

When I single click/select a piece of text that is annotative, it displays that text visually at many different scales (all overlapping each other - until I deselect it) which is annoying, how do I turn off this so it only shows the text at the size in MS say and not every possible size it could be in PS?

[ReMark]

Could it be SECTIONANNODISPLAY? Not 100% sure since I've only experimented with annotative scaling and haven't used it in a drawing. I do all my dimensioning and text in my layout. So much easier to deal with.

[rickh]

I use nothing but annotative and I love it....but everyone's different.

 

ReMark is correct if you just don't want to see multiple scales when selected.

 

I just thought I would add that if you don't need all those scales for each item, you can delete them...only keeping scales that you need (typically I only allow one scale for anything - because I only show it at one scale).

I see a lot of people here with ANNOAUTOSCALE turned on, and the default is to apply any newly selected scale to everything - so every time they change the scale, it adds the new scale to the annotative objects. You can adjust these values so that several scales aren't populating on everything, or just turn it off and manually control what scale the objects have. For me I can select everything, right click, and change it all quickly with Add/Delete scales....hey, I could go on and on, but maybe you needed multiple scales - if so my apologies for long winded typing.

 

If you ever change the scale of a plot after labelling everything, and placing blocks, etc. then annotative scales are a huge benefit (my opinion of course).

[Organic]

Could it be SECTIONANNODISPLAY? Not 100% sure since I've only experimented with annotative scaling and haven't used it in a drawing. I do all my dimensioning and text in my layout. So much easier to deal with.

 

Yes, this was it thanks.

 

Update: Upon coming back a couple of months later to find this command again & then having it not being recognized by AutoCad, I noticed there is a typo in the command quoted above. It should be SELECTIONANNODISPLAY

Edited February 7, 2012 by Organic