Change annotation scaling in paper space viewports

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Now switch to layout one.

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Here you can see that two viewpoints have been created.

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Both view reports show the same geometry and annotations.

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But thanks to annotation,

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scaling the size and position of the annotations is unique in each viewport.

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The viewport on the left shows the objects at a scale of 1 to 2.

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While the viewport on the right shows them at a scale of 1 to 5.

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On the status bar.

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You see the annotation, visibility and annotation,

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auto scale tools but not the annotation scale tool.

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When working in a paper space layout,

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you cannot change the annotation scale of the layout

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because layouts are meant to be plotted at a scale of 1 to 1.

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But you can change the annotation scale of a viewport

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on the status bar.

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Click the show annotation objects tool to toggle on annotation visibility.

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When you do,

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you can see the radial dimension in the upper right

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corner of the object in the viewport on the right.

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But it is quite small

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because it is currently not meant to be displayed at a scale of 1 to 5.

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Click this tool to toggle off the annotation. Visibility

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select the viewport on the left.

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When you do

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in the status bar, you again see the annotation, visibility and annotation,

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auto scale tools as well as a lock tool

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and a tool for changing the scale of the selected viewport,

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expand the viewport scale tool and choose 1 to 4.

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The geometry within the viewport gets smaller

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because you have reduced the scale of the viewport

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and all of the annotation objects have disappeared

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because none are currently set to display at a scale of 1 to 4.

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Also note that although the scale label below the viewport has not changed

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when you type re the shortcut for the region command and press enter

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that scale label also updates

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on the status bar toggle on the annotation visibility tool.

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When you do, you again see annotation objects in the left viewport,

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but they are at the wrong size.

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When you toggle this tool on,

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you see all annotation objects

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including those not actually set to display at the current annotation scale

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when you toggle this off so that you only

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see annotations meant to be displayed at this scale.

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All of the annotations in that viewport disappear,

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double click inside the left viewport to make it the active viewport,

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then use the roller wheel on the mouse to zoom in

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when you do on the status bar, you can see that the annotation scale has changed.

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When working in a paper space viewport,

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you need to be careful not to accidentally change

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the scale of the drawing in this way,

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on the status bar, expand the annotation scale tool and choose 1 to 2

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to restore the left viewport back to the proper scale.

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All the annotation objects are once again visible,

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regenerate the drawing again to update the scale label.