Text not coming through in xref in paperspace

[deltacoolguy]

Text not coming through in xref in paperspace

I have a detail that I made.  It is a detail only, with lots of text.  Annotative text, if that makes a difference.  I xref'd it into my drawing directly into the layout (title block) and all the linework showed up, but not the text.

I tried xreffing it into modelspace and creating a named view with a viewport in the title block.  The text shows up in modelspace, but the text does not show up in the viewport.

I got some message (this was yesterday, and I forget now the precise wording) that the scales didn't match up, so I reset the scale of the viewport to match the scale of the x-ref'd detail drawing and the text pops in fine in the viewport.

I should note that I used another drawing created by someone else, and in a prior version, as a base for the detail, so maybe that has something to do with it.  When I make small details from scratch and x-ref them directly into paperspace I don't get this same problem

Now, this works fine for a workaround, I suppose, but I'd like to know what's going on so that I can have a better workflow in the future and/or fix this one.  I did some searching and read some things in similar scenarios about annotative text being the culprit, but nobody's scenario matched mine close enough.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[JustOpie · Accepted solution]

It appears you are using annotative scales. In PaperSpace, the annotative scale setting cannot be changed, thus your XREF text which is probably assigned to a different annotative scale does not show up.

[deltacoolguy]

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@Anonymous wrote:
It appears you are using annotative scales. In PaperSpace, the annotative scale setting cannot be changed, thus your XREF text which is probably assigned to a different annotative scale does not show up.

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Yes, that is it.  I created a custom scale of 1=4 for the detail, and that is not a "natural" scale setting, and is not in the destination drawing.

That also explains why I had to set the viewport scale to the x-ref 1=4 scale to get it to show up that way.  I just didn't make the logical connection in my mind that the same concept would adversely affect the direct x-ref as well.  All is working as intended now and it is properly x-ref'd directly into paperspace as I prefer.  Thanks.