Drawing Scale within a rectangle

[jwright1962]

i have a series of rectangles in model space.  i would like to assign/attach a drawing annotative scale to each rectangle.  when my cursor enters the region of a specific rectangle i want the annotative drawing scale to automatically change to that annotative scale.   i do have some basic lisp skills but this seems beyond my skill set.  perhaps something like GRREAD to determine if the cursor is within/over a certain area is a start?

thanks forum!!  always appreciate the help.

[Moshe-A]

@jwright1962 ,

Can you give us more info what these rectangle serve and why picking them with mouse is not an option?

puting the system in (grread) loop egularly is not what you want?

Moshe

[Kent1Cooper]

How about Viewports rather than mere rectangles?  Isn't this kind of thing basically what Viewports and Annotative scales and styles are for?  It wouldn't change scale settings just by drifting over them, but a double-click in any of them would get you into model space in it, after which a single click in any other would move you into that one.

[jwright1962]

So, i use paperspace viewports religiously, but i draw almost 100% in model space.   The rectangles are the outlines of the paperspace viewports.  each viewport is a different ANNO scale.   while I'm drawing, I frequently move from one area of the screen to another and each area is a different anno scale.   I'd prefer not to stop my concentration or workflow to set the  a  new anno scale each time...  sometimes I move to one area just to place one dimension and then move back which requires me to change the anno scale, yet another time.  

sometimes i forget to change anno scale and then have to change 10 or 20 "text or dimension" objects to the proper anno scale.   it's not efficient.

[rgrainer]

How about using views?
Zoom to a window, set the annoscale and then save that view. Repeat. Restore any view and annoscale gets set at the same time.