Annotation Scaling in ARES Commander

With Annotative Scaling, Ares Commander 2016 Introduces a Great Improvement For Dimensions, Text, Hatches, And Blocks

 

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One of the most important elements in a technical drawing are the annotations.

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With Annotative Scaling, ARES Commander 2016 introduces a great improvement

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for dimensions, text, hatches, and blocks.

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Note that the annotative scale properties are not restricted to dimensions.

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We will also find texts, hatches, and blocks with annotative scaling.

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But first, let’s focus on the dimensions.

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In this picture, we see a layout sheet,

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where three viewports have been created with different scales.

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However, the values of the coordinates, the text size and arrow size are equal in all viewports.

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Look for example at this radius.

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It also appears here…

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and here.

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The same value and the same text size but shown in different scales.

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How do the annotative scales work?

Compare the work

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To explain, let’s compare how it used to work before

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with the new options in Ares Commander 2016.

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We switch to Model Space.

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Let’s create a dimension.

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We create it with a “non annotative” dimension style,

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which would be the “old method” before the version 2016.

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We create a linear dimension
between two points in the drawing.

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The new dimension looks similar to the
existing dimensions in the drawing.

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Let’s see what happens in the layout.

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Here we see our dimension.

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In this other viewport we see that the text
is hardly readable.

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And in this viewport it’s even smaller.

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Why? The dimensions are simply using a “not annotative” style

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and therefore will be larger or smaller depending on the scale.

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Such dimensions lack “intelligence”

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and therefore are not able to adapt their size to the scale used in a viewport.

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Opposingly, dimensions with annotative scaling have the ability to self-adapt.

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How does that work?

Dimensions with Annotative Scaling – the ability to self-adapt

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We return to the model space.

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We delete the dimension that we created

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or let’s select instead the “AnnoStyle” style to easily turn it into an annotative scale.

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There are options of annotative stlyes in the dropdown menu.

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For this drawing it is called “AnnoStyle”.

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Apparently, in model space we see no difference.

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Switch to the layout sheet: The dimension is not displayed.

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Note that it is not shown in any of the 3 viewports.

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You might think it’s created on a layer that is turned off.

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But this is not the case.

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We’ve created it on layer “0”, which is active.

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Other dimensions of the drawing are also created on layer “0”.

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The reason is different …

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Note: This viewport shows it is a scale of 1:2

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This other viewport is using a scale of 1:5

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And this one 1:4

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When delimiting a technical drawing,

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we may not expect to show the same dimensions in all viewports.

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For example if we have a large project like a house,

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we would most likely define different views with different levels of details

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and therefore different dimensions.

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We could have a viewport set to scale 1:5 or 1:10,

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where certain details and dimensions would appear.

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But these dimensions would be hidden in views with scales of 1:50 or 1:100.

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Instead of turning on or off layers, we can set the dimensions to choose

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which scales should be visible.

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This is an annotative scaling property.

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Returning to the model space, we can select the dimension

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and see in the properties that it is currently assigned to the scale 1:1

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Before making any change, we go back to the layout.

Create a viewport

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Let’s try to create a viewport with a 1:1 scale.

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We select the viewport

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and in the properties palette select Scale.

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We see now that the dimension is visible when the view is set to 1:1,

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but remains hidden in the other viewports.

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Back to the model space,

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select again the dimension.

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We click the button in the properties palette

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and see that this dimension is only associated with the scale 1:1.

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This is the reason why we didn’t see it in other views.

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Then we can add more scales.

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In this case scales 1:2, 1:4 and 1:5 which are displayed in our drawing.

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Pressing the CONTROL key we can add the 3 scales at once.

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Press OK. Now all the scales appear. Click OK again.

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Let us return to the layout, to check that the dimension appears now in

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Let’s say, that we don’t want the dimension appears for the scale 1:5

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Then, either from model space or by double-clicking the viewport,

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we can select the dimension, click the button with the scales

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and delete the scale 1:5

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See, the dimension is maintained in the other viewports,

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but not in the one with the scale 1:5.

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As the viewport scale is essential when using annotative scale.

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You should keep in mind that the viewport scale can be locked.

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Look, we are currently in the layout and use the mouse wheel to zoom.

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Obviously the zoom does not affect the content of the layout sheet.

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However, if we enter into a viewport and zoom with the mouse wheel,

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we are impacting the scale of the view.

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But we can also select this viewport

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and from the properties palette choose “YES” to block the scale factor.

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Now, this viewport is locked.

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Its scale is locked.

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Now, let’s try …

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If we double-click, we enter in the viewport.

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We try to zoom with the mouse wheel.

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But the scale is not changing anymore

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The zoom affects only the workspace.

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If we use PAN (pressing the mouse wheel) we can’t change the view of the viewport:

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We move the entire drawing at once.

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As we said at the beginning of the video

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there are more objects with annotative scaling properties namely texts, hatches and even blocks.

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When using an annotative style,

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a text seen through a viewport scale 1: 2

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will appear at the same height as when seen from a 1: 5 scale viewport.

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The same goes for hatches:

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the separation between 2 lines will look the same, when we look at a viewport scale 1: 2

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and in viewports using a different scale.

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In any case, when creating a text style,

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we can activate the Annotative Scaling parameter to define its height.

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And similarly we can do this in blocks …

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And even within the properties when defining a HATCH.

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Feel free to visit the HELP, to learn more about the features of ARES Commander 2016

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