2008

AUTOCAD 2008 PREVIEW GUIDE
Figure 39. Annotation Scaling panel on the Dashboard.
Annotative scaling is not available in earlier releases of AutoCAD. However, an option in the Open and Save
tab of the Options dialog box enables you to maintain the visual fidelity of your annotative objects when saving
to earlier file formats. When you save an AutoCAD 2008 drawing with this option selected, each scale
representation of every annotative object is saved as a normal (non-annotative) object on its own layer. The
appropriate layers are automatically frozen in each viewport to match the visibility of the original annotative
objects in the AutoCAD 2008-based drawing. If you choose not to maintain the visual fidelity for annotative
objects, all annotative objects will be saved based on the annotation scale of the Model tab or its last supported
scale.
Figure 40. Visual fidelity control for annotative objects.
In addition to the powerful functionality associated with annotative-type objects, linetypes are automatically
scaled by the viewports annotation scale. If you choose, you can disable this behavior using the MSLTSCALE
system variable.
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