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Visual Fidelity for Annotative Objects

When working with objects, this option allows you to maintain visual fidelity

for these objects when they are viewed in AutoCAD 2007 and earlier releases.

Visual fidelity is controlled by the SAVEFIDELITY system variable.

If you work primarily in model space, it is recommended that you turn off

visual fidelity (set SAVEFIDELITY to 0). However, if you need to exchange

drawings with other users, and layout fidelity is most important, then visual

fidelity should be turned on (set SAVEFIDELITY to 1).

NOTE The SAVEFIDELITY system variable does not affect saving a drawing to the

AutoCAD 2010 drawing or DXF file formats.

Annotative objects may have multiple . When visual fidelity is on, annotative

objects are decomposed and scale representations are saved (in an ) to separate

layers, which are named based on their original layer and appended with a

number. If you explode the block in AutoCAD 2007 or earlier releases, and

then open the drawing in AutoCAD 2008 or later releases, each scale

representation becomes a separate annotative object, each with one annotation

scale. It is not recommended that you edit or create objects on these layers

when working with a drawing created in AutoCAD 2008 and later releases in

AutoCAD 2007 and earlier releases.

When this option is not selected, a single model space representation is

displayed on the Model layout. More annotation objects may be displayed on

the Model layout depending on the ANNOALLVISIBLE setting. Also, more

objects may be displayed in paper space viewports at different sizes than in

AutoCAD 2008 and later releases.