These are not dynamic blocks. I am not inserting them in viewports at all. They are going on my detail sheets in paper space. The detail sheets are tabs of my project file. Model space (and viewports) are only used for plan views. They are simple details I'm trying to put on a detail sheet, like I have done for 30 years. Only now, I'm trying to "get with it" by using annotative dimensioning. The details are drawn at full size, but they are at different scales. Most are 1"=1'-0", but some are 3/4"=1'-0" and some are 1-1/2"=1'-0", so, when they come into the detail sheet, now in paper space, they come in at different sizes. I have to scale them down (1/12 for 1"=1'-0", etc.) to all be the same size and for the scales to be correct. I used to have DIMS_12, DIMS_16, etc for each size (scale) of detail. But now, I just have DIMS which is associative. I assign the scale to the dimension while in the detail. I don't know how else one would do detail sheets.
When I used stand alone detail sheets, they would all be in model space with the title block XREF'd in model space. Those sheets were set up for 1"=1'-0" because that's the scale the majority of details are drawn at. I would have to scale the other details appropriately.
The ONLY problem I am having now, is that when I bring in a details (with annotative dimensioning), scale the detail appropriately, I don't see the annotative dimensions, text and leaders. When I click on the block and check the properties, it shows "no" for being annotative. I then have to go into the block editor and change annotative from "no" to "yes". When I close the block editor, everything shows up. If I OPEN the detail and look at the properties, the annotation scale is shown. Why does this change when I insert it as a block?
