Are you an ANNOTATIVE features CAD Operator?

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

Jane Gardam

Till 2009, AutoCAD had no annotative features. If You needed to create a detailed blow-up from a drawing and publish it in a different scale, YOU would need to copy Texts &/or Mtexts, Leaders and Dimensions, Attributes & Symbolic Blocks and - of course - Hatch Patterns to another Layer...

9 Versions later, some AutoCAD users still oppose to annotative features: some say that they find no real benefit, others claim that they can't use it because of some limitations and that's our topic on this post

Working with Annotation Features, saves time & human error, it's flexible and made to overcome 99% of the obstacles when moving between scales.

MTEXT

The same annotation at a different Annotation Scale will easily change location, justification and/or rotation angle

DIMENSIONS & Multileaders

Same dimensions @ different Annotation Scale will need some of the text to be relocated and naturally, the value of dimspace will be different for each annotation scale so that in the case of displaying 2 Viewports with 2 different scales, the dimspace will compensate for this showing the same space @ the paper

SYMBOLS

Using Annotative Blocks will offer symbology abilities: at different scales the symbol will plot at the same dimensions

ATTRIBUTES

Same Block Geometry will offer readability offering Annotative Attributes

HATCH PATTERNS

Using Annotative Hatch You'll be able to have the same density on paper - having a different (Automatically Calculated by AutoCAD) at the Model

What about You? Have You Met Some Difficulties with Annotative Features?

Danny Korem | Sophisticadd.com | "Distilling Exactly the CAD Knowledge of Your Needs"