Control the visibility of annotative objects

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Annotative objects allow you to create a single

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annotation object that can represent multiple scales.

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When you select an annotative object that has more than one annotative scale,

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the program may temporarily display all of

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its scale representations in the current viewport.

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For example,

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in the exercise file on the model tab,

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you can see some existing geometry as well as several annotation objects.

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When you switch to layout one,

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you see two viewpoints that show the same geometry and annotations.

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One viewport is set to a scale of 1 to 2 and the other is set to a scale of 1 to 5.

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So you immediately know that these annotative

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objects have been assigned multiple scales,

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double click in the viewport on the left to make it active

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and then select an annotation

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such as the dimension on the left.

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When you do

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it highlights in both viewpoints,

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and you see all of its scale representations

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press escape to deselect the dimension

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and then switch back to the model tab

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again when you select an annotation

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such as the text below the object

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it highlights

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and you can see all of its scale representations

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again, press escape

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to deselect that object.

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If you prefer not to see all of the scale representations,

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when you select an annotative object,

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you can toggle this feature off

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to do so

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with no other command active start typing

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selection

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Anno

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display.

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Thanks to the program's autocomplete feature. As soon as you see the selection and a

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display system variable

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in the autocomplete field, you can press enter to select it.

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The program prompts you to enter a new value for selection Anno display

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type zero. And press enter.

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Now when you select an annotation object,

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that object highlights,

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but it now displays only at the current scale,

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you no longer see all of the other scale representations.