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how do I change text height that is annotative

abance9ZVG3 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 23:59:45 GMT

Hello,

I'm quite new to using annotative in text and dimensions and I'm not sure how does it work and how do I change the text height. I have a dimension it is quite big. how Do I make the dimensions smaller? Thank you

Re: how do I change text height that is annotative

rkmcswain — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 01:35:33 GMT

You might start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4qB4km9JFM

In short, when using Annotative text, you specify the text height in plotted units (i.e. 1/4", or 0.12", or 3mm, etc.) and not by the real world units size as we did for years before annotative objects.

If you select your dimension and look in PROPS what do you see for text height and Annotative scale? Note in my example below, the Annotative scale is 1"=20' and my text height is 0.1. The real world units measurement of the text is 2 units (20 * 0.1).

Re: how do I change text height that is annotative

abance9ZVG3 — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:03:41 GMT

Hi,

Even if I change the annotation it didn't seem to work 😞 This is the current

Re: how do I change text height that is annotative

h_s_walker — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:50:16 GMT

Can you show us the following

Your text setting for your dim style DKIM_Annotative

Your Text style settings which you use for the DKIM_Annotative dimension

Re: how do I change text height that is annotative

abance9ZVG3 — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:04:35 GMT

Hello this is the current text

Re: how do I change text height that is annotative

pendean — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:16:44 GMT

@abance9ZVG3 wrote:
Hello this is the current text ...

This is the problem, 4" when for annotative it needs to be 3/32" (10-11 points high in MSWord parlance), so your text is over 40times as large as it needs to be

It always helps if you dive in completely to ANNOTATIVE text style, you want that to be annotative too, not the way you have it set.

Annotative Text is all about the print result, 3/32" is the common size. Like this

Re: how do I change text height that is annotative

abance9ZVG3 — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:10:37 GMT

It worked!!! Thank you so much!!