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Blocks with Dimensioning

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Blocks with Dimensioning

I just started with a new company and assist them with creating 2d shop drawings. I recently started implementing annotative dimensions and plotting from the layout tab with a predetermined scale. Everything has been working well so far except for the blocks my company uses. The blocks are details of items we ship with our products. They are not drawn to scale, and have dimensioning that when brought into a drawing doesn't scale up and is almost unreadable. Is there any way of fixing this other than manually editing every block in our library? Should I make the entire block annotative or just the text/dimensions inside?

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MetalFingerz
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Hi Tyler,

 

When choosing a scale, if the block is rightly resized but its annotation aren't, you simply need to make the texts and/or dimensions annotative. If you make the whole block annotative, it will be rescaled alongside the annotations which may not be what you want.

 

If you want to automate the process, use a .lisp routine. I'm not good with it but you could follow the blueprint of that one :

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/set-annotative-using-lisp-or-vlisp/t...

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