Setting the Annotation Scale and Adding Text

You've got a text style set up and ready to use. Now you'll add some text to your unit plan. Before you begin, you should determine a drawing scale. This is important because, with the Annotative feature turned on, AutoCAD needs to know the drawing scale in order to set the size of the text. Follow these steps:

1. In the right side of the status bar, click the drop-down arrow next to Annotation Scale.

   

2. Select ¼? = 1'-0?. Metric users, select 1:100.

You've just set the drawing scale for the Model view. This isn't a permanent setting; you can change it at any time as you'll see later. The settings you used for the annotation scale are somewhat arbitrary for the purposes of demonstrating the Annotative Scale feature.