Make an Entire DWG Annotative
While I was unable to get a blog post put together last week, I did manage to finish developing a course on Annotative Scaling for my firms internal training program. One nifty discovery I came across in developing the course was the variable ANNOTATIVEDWG. So what exactly does this guy do?
Quite simply - it makes an entire drawing annotative. For companies whose block libraries are organized into a series of DWG files, this new variable is rather cool. By opening those block drawings, and changing the ANNOTATIVEDWG variable from 0 to 1, the entire drawing becomes annotative. Now whenever you insert that drawing into another as a block, its block definition will be Annotative.
A couple things to know about the ANNOTATIVEDWG variable. First it can only be set to 1 if you do not have any other annotative objects in your drawing. Once AutoCAD detects annotative objects in your drawing it makes the variable read-only, and thus unchangeable by the user. Secondly, AutoCAD ignores the INSUNITS setting when a drawing whose ANNOTATIVEDWG variable has been set to 1 is being inserted into a drawing.
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I am mechanical engineer and I need ad.autocad help speacially in mould making and 3D making
I don’t know the Annotative options are going to help you too much. AutoCAD 2007 did of course see a lot of new 3D features. On a side note it may be worth taking a look at the Autodesk Labs. They have their upcoming Inventor LT available as a free download. Inventor is specifically aimed at the Mechanical industry.
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Great posting. This is great for symbols like property corners\monumentation in LDT 2008. As annotative blocks they scale per viewport! Something we have been looking at for years!
I guess I do not have a good enough grasp on annotative issues to realize the significance or ramifications of making a whole drawing annotative as opposed to creating annotative objects in a drawing. I think the ability to set a whole drawing annotative in mostly applicable to simple “block” drawings rather than production sheet drawings but I’m not yet clear if this is accurate. I’m still trying to find a tutorial or article to fill in my understanding on the whole annotative issue; specifically information that covers “best practices” concepts, and details that help me understand how and when to apply various annotative options.