When do I choose annotation vs standard

[Anonymous]

After reading about model space vs paper space it seems I should use model space to draw and paper space to print.  Then there is the next question, do I choose annotation or standard when I am working on text or dimentions.  When I am in model space should I be annotative or paper space in standard.  Pretty new at this part and it is still abit confusing.

Thanks,

Greg

[maxim_k · Accepted solution]

Hi Greg,

You use annotative text style when you need to represent the same part of the drawing in a different scale, for example if you have two viewports in the Layout with the same area of the drawing and you want to represent this area in two different scales. When you use annotative text style you don't need to change text height manually - AutoCAD will do this for you.

Look here for the details:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/AutoC...

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/AutoC...

[dgorsman]

Under most circumstances anything in modelspace will be true-size, or 1:1.  That means text on a 1:50 drawing will need to be some factor of its normal text height - not exactly ideal, especially if you have multiple paperspace viewports at different scales.  This is where annotatve scaling comes in, it provides an automatic scaling for annotative text and dimensions based on either the current annotation scale (model space) or viewport annotative scale (paperspace viewport).  You can have the same modelspace text or dimension object appear the same height in different paper space viewports regardless of what scale they are at.

If you put all your text, dimensions, and other annotations in paper space and use viewports to provide scaled views of the model space content you only need concern yourself with annotation scaling for consistent linetype presentation in each viewport.