About Adding and Modifying Scale Representations

Scale representations enable you to display the same annotative objects differently in different viewports in paper space. You can add scale representations to objects, remove them, and move their locations in the drawing.

Note: Objects that are not annotative but have annotative components, such as devices and air terminals, do not have scale representations. Annotative components are always displayed and scaled according to the annotation scale.

Adding the Current Scale Representation

To add the current scale representation to an object, select the object, right-click and click Annotative Object Scale Add Current Scale.

You can also add and remove scale representations using the commands on the Annotative Scale panel of the context menu.

Automatically Adding Scale Representations

To automatically add a scale representation to all annotative objects, including those in referenced drawings (xrefs), when you change to that scale, click on the status bar, so that it is displayed as .

In model space, typically you will want to disable this option if you are working in a drawing that has multiple scales so that scales are not unnecessarily added to all of the annotative objects.

Danger: Using this option to add scale representations to the annotative objects in an xref created in a previous version of the software automatically updates the file format of the xref to the current version. This means you can no longer open the drawing in the previous version.

Moving Scale Representations

• Labels and AEC dimensions have a single Location grip for all scale representations. This allows you to specify one location for all of the scale representations of the object.
• Annotative MvBlocks have 2 Location grips: one for specifying a location for all of the scale representations, and one for specifying a location for only the current scale representation.
• All other annotative objects have a Location grip for each scale representation, which means you can specify different locations for each scale representation. To move the object in all scale representations, use the MOVE command instead.