Copy of an annotative scale appears?!

[Anonymous]

Often, I run into a problem where my viewports create a copy of an annotative scale. For example, I will copy and paste a viewport and change the annotative scale and standard scale to 1-1/2" = 1'-0" (added scale for our company), through the properties menu. As soon as I deselected the window, it creates a scale "1-1/2" = 1'-0"_1" (see attached picture). It happens on other scales as well, but mostly this one. Any idea where AutoCAD is getting this scale?

[pendean]

From your XREF usually: do you have one in the file?

[Anonymous]

It actually had to do with the definition of our template scale list. The 1-1/2" = 1'-0", in our template, was set for 1 paper unit equals 8 units. However, AutoCAD sets the scales, with the 1'-0" designation, as X number equals 12 units. So the above scale should be 1.5 paper units equals 12 units. These separate definitions caused a duplicate X" = 1'-0"_1 annotative scale to be created. Once I fixed the incorrect scale, the issue did not reappear.