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Annotative attribute embedded within annotative block fails to respect annotativ

JamaL9722060 — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:29:05 GMT

Annotative attribute embedded within annotative block fails to respect annotative property,

I couldn’t figure out why the AutoCAD doesn’t respect the annotative attribute as it is embedded within annotative block.

For example, in the screenshot below, the attribute is set to be annotative at the following scales: 1/100, 1/50, 1/200. The text behave as expected.

Now as the block is made, the attribute text doesn’t respect any longer being itself annotative.

Re: Annotative attribute embedded within annotative block fails to respect annot

jporter — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 05:23:53 GMT

Does the destination drawing have the same text style as the attribute? I ask because if you have a text style with the same name then it might be overriding the text style in the block. Can you post a copy of the block and the destination drawing?

Re: Annotative attribute embedded within annotative block fails to respect annot

JamaL9722060 — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 05:51:30 GMT

Thanks jporter,

In principle, should the attribute text respect its annotative property despite the fact that it is embedded in a block that has its own annotative settings?

The dwg of the block is attached

Re: Annotative attribute embedded within annotative block fails to respect annot

Imui — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:41:21 GMT

Hello,

You sayd:

I couldn’t figure out why the AutoCAD doesn’t respect the annotative attribute as it is embedded within annotative block.

As far as i know. you can have annonative "text" in normal(non annotative) blocks. Othervise the anno. text will be the same scale as anno. block.

And beside your question, you might whant to have diferite values for your attributes tag and prompt. Also the colcour of your text might be something elsse then 0,0,0

Re: Annotative attribute embedded within annotative block fails to respect annot

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:18:34 GMT

Hi,

to be honest I don't understand the reason of the question.

My understanding: When an attribute is part of a block it has to follow the annotative settings of the block.

If you have a symbol like yours, circle and attribute and you define both objects to be 2 in size (AutoCAD units, circle-radius = 2 / text-height = 2), then you make that annotative so the definition is: size = dependent on annoscale, then

1:1000 means the size should be 2mm on paper
1:500 means the size should be 2mm on paper
1:200 means the size should be 2mm on paper
...

So why should the attribute not follow that rule? Or why shoud the diameter of the symbol change in another way then the text-height?

(...and if they would change differently you would get troubles with the insertion point of the attribute)

- alfred -

Re: Annotative attribute embedded within annotative block fails to respect annot

jporter — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:15:08 GMT

I agree with Alfred. Why is there a need to make the block annotative and the text not? If the block is annotative then every component of that block will scale up or down accordingly (including the text). The time you need to make the text annotative is when you have a block in which you want the symbol to remain the same size, but want the text to scale up or down accordingly. And, as Alfred stated, if you do make the text resize at a different scale than the symbol then you may run into some insertion point problems.

But after looking at your block, I believe it's working as it's supposed to. . .all three blocks (text included) will scale with the annotation scale change:

How did you create that block in that LabWork_2015_2016_Semester 2 drawing? Mainly, how did you get the text to remain the same height even when the block scaled up? In my understanding, though the final producet appeared as you so desired, I don't see how that happened if the text was part of the annotative block.

What were the settings you uses in your attribute definition box? This is what I see by default when I type the command while in the block editor:

Re: Annotative attribute embedded within annotative block fails to respect annot

JamaL9722060 — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:10:47 GMT

Thank you guys for the input. This is very useful.

I need to accept that the annotative attribute text embedded in an annotative bock will behave as one unit according the annotation scale.