Practice Exercise: Manage and create annotations

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This is the solution video for managing and creating annotation

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in

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ACAD,

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there are many possible ways to approach any given task and what is

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best and most intuitive for one user may not be for another.

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These solutions videos demonstrate just one set of workflows that

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could be taken when working through these practice exercises.

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They are not intended to be step by step instructions but rather a

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guided tour of one user's approach and rationale in completing this exercise.

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First, we'll edit the textile

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and change the font

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associated with the notes style to aerial.

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Next, we'll create a new textile as a boulder font

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that we use for titles and make it annotative

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with a preassigned paper text height.

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Next, we'll edit the dimension style to change the text color

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from purple which is hard to see on a black background

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to the green, which is a little more easily visible.

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We'll do the same with the multi liter style

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and will also change its text style

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to use the modified notes style

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using the new titles, text style at

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an m

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text title underneath the drawing

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and then we'll add a couple of dimensions to the top of this manhole,

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the overall dimension

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and then a dimension of the manhole cover itself the red rectangle.

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Next, we're gonna assign some annotative scales.

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Since this dimension is gonna show up in a viewport that's scaled 1 to 5,

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we'll go ahead and add that scale to that dimension ahead of time.

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Also add that same scale to the multi liter as well.

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This just presets those scales so that they

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show up appropriately in the corresponding viewport.

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When we change the current annotation scale to 1 to 5,

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we see that the properties of those objects adjust

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based on that scale.

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When we turn the annotation visibility off the annotative objects that

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do not have the current scale disappear as they should.

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We can use grips to reposition the leader.

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And that position is scale specific specific switch to the layout, one

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layout tab in the lower viewport,

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we're gonna remove the annotation scale that we don't need.

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It isn't necessary to remove the unused annotation scale,

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but it's good practice just keeps the drawing clean

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and then we'll add a leader in this viewport as well.

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And this leader will come in preassigned

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with the view port's current annotation scale

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toggle along the annotation visibility so that you

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can see that leader in the upper viewport,

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even though it doesn't have the right annotation scale.

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And then you can add the current scale to that leader

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so that it displays properly in that Viewport

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repeat that process for the hatch pattern as well.

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Use grips to adjust the position of that leader

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in that viewport and then toggle the annotation,

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visibility back off.

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So that the only annotation that's visible in the viewport

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is the annotation that's assigned the appropriate scales.