Change annotative scale of xrefed cogo points to be different from the viewport scale

Change annotative scale of xrefed cogo points to be different from the viewport scale

dpoltorak2HRNX
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Change annotative scale of xrefed cogo points to be different from the viewport scale

dpoltorak2HRNX
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Hello,

 

Is there a way to change the annotative scale of xrefed cogo points to be different from the viewport scale in paperspace?

 

In the majority of my sheets I am plotting at 10 scale, so the cogo points show up appropriately (0.1" txt height) when plotted. However, I have one sheet that I am plotting the viewport at 30 scale, but don't want the cogo points to plot as 30 scale as the enlarged points overlap when scaled. So really I want the points to show up closer to 0.03" only on that one sheet when plotted. In the past, I end up just exploding the points in the xref so they show up at the same scale everywhere, but it would be better to not have to explode. The other option I read online is to set the cogo point styles to a "fixed scale," but that would take a long time as there are multiple point styles and label styles. It seems to me that AutoCAD would create a function to change the xrefed cogo point scaling easy enough. Any insight would be appreciated.

 

Thank you

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MMcCall402
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Unfortunately Civil 3D labels don't react to annotative scale values.

 

All that comes to mind is second set of labels at a different size.   Being that there are multiple label styles in use its not a very appealing solution.

 

If the points were in the same file they could be resized with and expression that supplied a text height based on scale.  It works fine within the same file but not when the labels are xreffed into another drawing. They stick to the scale of the xreffed drawing.

 

Sorry I don't have a viable solution for this.  I'll keep thinking about it.

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MMcCall402
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This is weird, but you could make your paperspace layout 3x as big, with a viewport set at 1"=10', them plot the sheet at 1/3 is size to make at 1"=30' plan.

Mark Mccall 
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