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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 502).
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:
Work with Blocks (page 307)
Attach Data to Blocks (Block Attributes) (page 323)
Set Orientation for Annotations (page 502)
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.
You can use the HPANNOTATIVE system variable or the user interface to
specify whether or not new hatches are annotative. By default, new hatch
objects are non-annotative.
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