normal versus annotative text

[office6PUWT]

I'm trying to understand annotative text/dimensions their use and advantages. I created two lines of text using different text styles fp txt and fp txt2 one with and one without annotation. They look the same to me. At what point will creating the MTEXT line as an annotative object become more useful to me and in what way please? see attached screen shot also.

Luke

[rkmcswain · Accepted solution]

Annotative objects can and will scale themselves up or down depending on the scale of the viewport. Annotative objects can also be made invisible at designated scale factors. This allows you to annotate a single model that is meant to be displayed at different scales - with the same printed text size.

For example, if you are drawing a 5 acre site plan with a 2000 S.F. house on it, it would be difficult to dimension the width of a door when viewing the entire 5 acres. But in a viewport that shows the detail of the door, this dimension would appear and be scaled to the same overall printed text size.

View more here:

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Since you are never likely to plot your drawing at 1:1, but at a plot scale, annotative text comes in handy when plotting using viewports of different scales in layouts without the need for you to switch and change text styles sizes manually in modelspace.

See it in action by changing your CANNOSCALE setting here which mimics your eventual plot scale:

Look up the topic in HELP and online tutorials to find out more about annotative text/dims/mleaders etc.