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 Annotative blocks cannot reside in annotative blocks.
 Annotative block references are scaled uniformly by the current annotation
scale as well as any user scale applied to the block reference.
 Blocks that contain annotative objects should not be manually scaled.
You can define annotative attributes for annotative and non-annotative blocks.
Use annotative attributes with non-annotative blocks when you want the
geometry in the block to display on the paper based on the scale of the
viewport, but you want the attribute text to display at the Paper Text Height
defined for the attribute.
You can set the orientation of annotative blocks to match the orientation of
the paper. For more information about setting the orientation of annotative
objects, see
Set Orientation for Annotations (page 563).
You can use the ANNOTATIVEDWG system variable to specify whether or
not the entire drawing will behave as an annotative block when inserted into
another drawing. The ANNOTATIVEDWG system variable becomes read-only
if the drawing contains annotative objects.
NOTE The INSUNITS setting is ignored when inserting annotative blocks into a
drawing.
See also:
Create and Use Blocks (Symbols) (page 321)
Attach Data to Blocks (Block Attributes) (page 339)
Set Orientation for Annotations (page 563)
Create Annotative Hatches
Use an annotative hatch to symbolically represent material such as sand,
concrete, steel, earth, etc.
Create Annotative Hatches
An annotative hatch is defined at a paper size. You can create individual
annotative hatch objects as well as annotative hatch patterns.
The hatch pattern definitions stored in the acad.pat file contain information
that indicates whether the pattern is annotative or non-annotative.
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