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Question on maintaining printed text size

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Anonymous
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Question on maintaining printed text size

Just as a background on what I do...I do surveys on major traffic crash scenes then create diagrams, do a reconstruction, etc.

 

I have to print multiple views (usually an overall scene view plus 3 or 4 zoomed in views).  I have different pieces of evidence (tire marks, scrapes, gouges, etc.) labeled with text.  Obviously, when I zoom in, the text gets much larger.  I prefer to use the "Fit to paper" selection under the plot scale so that each diagram fills up the paper regardless of scale.

 

I have tried playing with Annotative Text, but it seems like I have to use a preset scale and can't use the "Fit to paper" option.  This isn't always doable depending on what I am trying to zoom in on.

 

Ideally, I'd like to set certain text so that it prints the same size on the paper regardless of what view I print.  This would also save a ton of time for printing my title block.


Is this possible to do?  What I have been doing is just making different layers with different text sizes for each view that I print.  It works but it takes a lot of time.  It is hard to get the size of the title blocks consistent across each view as well.

 

Thanks!

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pendean
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One idea... If you use paperspace, and your 'views' are viewports into the modelspace content, who about the option of adding your text items in paperspace above the viewports?
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Anonymous
in reply to: pendean

Thanks for the reply Dean.

 

I'm very new to AutoCAD, so I'm just learning about paperspace vs. modelspace.  It has been over 10 years since I have used it...the program I had been using didn't have paperspace (at least that I'm aware of).

 

I need to learn a little more about how paperspace works but that sounds like a good option.

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