- [Instructor] We're staying in our GF 103,
1 Southeast Madison dot DWG file.
And in the previous video, we set up our view port
at that one to 100 view port scale.
So I've left the drawing in the ISO A1 landscape layout tab.
And we'll just hover over that view port again
just to check that it is one to 100, there it is,
on the tool tip it's show me it's a view port
and it's on the layer of view ports
and it's using the standard scale of one to a 100.
That's great.
Let's jump back into the model tab now.
Now you'll notice,
if I hover over any of these dimensions here,
you can see that they have a little
sort of funny symbol on them.
That's an annotative symbol.
Let me know that those dimensions
are using an annotative dimension style.
Now, I've touched on this already in this particular course.
I just want to stress that annotative dimensioning,
annotative text is really important
in your AutoCAD drawings.
And you need to make sure that your annotative objects
in the model space are using the appropriate
annotation scale, for it to work and function
in your view port scale that should be the same.
So, what we can do now,
is we can select one of these dimensions.
I'm going to go for that 9601 there.
I'm then going to right click
and select properties on the shortcut menu.
That brings up the good old properties panel
that we've been using.
And you can see there,
that I'm using a dimension style called M, for metric.
Arrow heads, and it's in millimeters.
It's annotative, yes,
and it's using an annotative scale of one to 100.
So it's using the right scale for my view port scale
in my layout tab.
I can close the properties palette now,
and just hit escape to deselect that particular dimension.
Now, if I wanted to place any other dimensions,
I would need to make sure
that my annotation scale here,
is also at one to 100, which it is already.
But, if it wasn't you'd need to make sure
that it was at one to 100.
Now what I'm going to do
is I'm just going to zoom in on this sort of top edge here
in the middle dimension, between grid two and three.
And I'm just going to place a couple of linear dimensions,
just to show you how this works.
So my annotation scale is at one to 100
and I'm just revisiting this, to make sure
that you understand the concepts behind annotative scaling.
So in the annotation fly out here, in the home tab
I'm going to go to dimensions here, there we go.
Click there on the dimension style
and I need to be using M arrowheads millimeters, like so.
Now, I need to be using my dimensioning layer,
so I click on my layer drop down here, like so.
Or what I could do is use a really cool tool
in the layers panel.
Let's just go and make current,
and select a dimension
that puts me straight onto that dimension layer.
It's the a 010 DDM layer.
So now I can just place a linear dimension.
I've got the right dimension style,
I've got the annotation scale set up.
I've got the right layer set up.
Up here on the annotation panel, click on the fly out,
and there's my dimension types.
I select linear.
And what I'm going to do here, I'm going to click there
on that endpoint, click there on that endpoint.
Can you see the dimension matches the one above?
And what I'll probably do there
is place one more, to another linear dimension.
And I'll go from say this endpoint to this endpoint.
I'm not too worried about, where they're actually going.
It's just to see that they're working.
What I'll do, I can line in.
If I snap to that little node snap there, can you see?
Then those two dimensions
are obviously aligned horizontally.
Now you can see the dimensions match
the existing dimensions that we already had.
If I hover over them,
you can see we've got the annotative symbol.
Click on one of them, right click,
and go to properties on the shortcut menu.
And you can see, M Arrowheads millimeters,
annotative, yes, annotative scale one to 100.
So that means that everything's working.
I'll just hit Escape now, just to deselect the dimension.
And I'll double click on the wheel to zoom extent.
Last sanity check here, to make sure
that our annotative scaling is working.
I'll jump into the layout tab,
the ISO A1 landscape layout tab.
And there's our dimensions.
You can see one there, and one there,
and they're all looking consistent and the same size,
which is what we want with our annotative scaling.