Create an annotative text object

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So how did the lower text become annotative?

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All objects that support annotation scaling

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include an annotative object property.

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You can therefore make any non

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annotative text object annotative by simply enabling this property

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double click inside the upper view port to make it active,

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then

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select the non annotative text object,

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right? Click

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and choose properties to open the properties palette

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in the property's palate.

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In the text group,

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you can see a property called annotative.

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And for the multi line text object,

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you selected that property is currently set to know

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click in that field to make it active,

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expand the drop down and select yes.

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When you do in the lower viewport, the object disappears,

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it disappears because at present that object was only set to

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display when the annotation scale is set to 1 to 1.

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But you can add the 1 to 4 scale to

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the list of scales at which that object should display

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in the properties palate.

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The property below annotative is annotative scale.

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When you select that field, an adjacent tool becomes available.

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And when you select that tool,

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the program displays the annotation object scale dialogue,

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the object scale list shows the scales at

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which the selected object should be displayed.

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That list currently includes only the 1 to 1 scale.

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The scale at which the multi line text object was originally created.

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Click add to open the add scales to object dialogue,

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press control, select 1 to 2 and 1 to 4 and then click OK.

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Those two scales are now added to the list,

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click OK. To close the annotation object scale dialogue.

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Now you can again see both text objects and they are both the same size.

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Since they now overlap, you can use grips to move the text

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on the status bar, change the scale of the lower viewport to 1 to 2.

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Since both text objects are now annotative, they both resize

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although you may again need to use grips

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to move one of the text objects so that they do not overlap

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double click outside the view ports and then type re

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to regenerate the drawing and update the scale label.

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When you switch back to the model tab,

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you see only one version of the two text objects.

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But now when you change the annotation scale back to 1 to 1,

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both objects update because both are now annotative.

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And when you hover the cursor over either of those objects,

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you see the annotative object badge which

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helps you identify which objects are annotative.