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7 Specify whether to scale the view block:
8 If you selected Insert as annotation block, and you want the annotation view block to remain
9 Add and configure additional views as previously described.
10 To remove a view, select it, and click Remove.
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If desired, you can offset the annotation block from its insertion point by specifying values for
Offset in X and for Offset in Y.
NOTE When you insert a view block as an annotation block, the Annotation display component for
the object type (device, panel, or plumbing fitting) determines its display properties, such as its color,
linetype, and lineweight.
By defining multiple views with the same specified display representation and view directions,
you can display an object using annotative and non-annotative view blocks at the same time,
and you can configure the display properties of the view blocks differently. For example, you
might have a junction box style that requires a view block to represent the symbology, and a
second view block to represent the annotation. This allows you to define the appearance of the
annotation view block by configuring the Annotation display component for the junction box,
and to define the appearance of the symbol by configuring the other display components for
the junction box.
If you want to scale the view
block using ...
the current annotation scale
a scale factor that you specify
no scale
horizontal regardless of the rotation of the object in the drawing, select Keep text horizontal
when rotating.
WARNING Use caution when removing views. If there is no view of the style for the current display
representation and view direction in the drawing, all of the objects that use the style will not display
when the drawing uses that display representation and view direction.
then...
select Use Annotation Scale. This scales the block to the annotation
plot size (specified on the Scale tab of the Drawing Setup dialog)
multiplied by the scale factor for the
NOTE The Use Annotation Scale setting for the symbol, not
the Annotative property in the selected symbol block defini-
tion, determines whether the symbol is annotative (scales ac-
cording to the annotation scale). Also note that plumbing fit-
tings are always scaled according to the current annotation
scale in model space; for more information, see
Objects on page 549.
select Override Scale, and for each coordinate direction (X, Y, and Z),
enter the scale factor to use to scale the block.
A value greater than 1 enlarges the block. A value between 0 and 1
shrinks the block.
NOTE If you select both this and Use Annotation Scale, the
block is scaled using the scale factors you enter, and then the
result is multiplied by the scale factor for the
tion scale.
do not select Use Annotation Scale or Override Scale.
current annotation scale.
Annotative
current annota-