New on AutoCAD 2008: Drawing Status Bar

Did you ever draw something, a detail maybe in 1”=1’-0” scale, then after finishing the detail, it was decided finally, that it is best shown in ½”=1’-0” scale?

Those &$#@^& ! !.

I know. Don’t despair anymore.

We will use the annotative properties found in the Drawing Status Bar.

The principle is to make our text , dimension and multileader styles to annotative and we can add Dynamic Blocks of Section/Elevation callouts or detail Titles provided as defaults in the Tool Pallette.

For the text style dialog box, check box for Annotative under Size parameter and input Paper Text Height, in our case, it’s 1/8” as our CAD Standard.

Click Modify, under Text tab, choose text style as Annotative.

Click OK, click set current, click Close.

Then, lets set the multileader style under Multileader Style Manager’s dialog box to Annotative.

Click Modify, click Content Tab, and choose Text Style as Annotative.
And under Leader Structure Tab, check box Annotative under Scale Parameter.
Click OK, and then click Set Current on Multileader Style Manager dialog box.

Back At Drawing Status Bar, choose Annotative Scale.

At Tool Pallete:

Dynamic Blocks for Section and Elevation Callouts and as well as Drawing Title can be used.

Hence, begin drafting.

Note:

When the drawing status bar is turned off, its tools are moved to the application status bar (lower right on a drawing window).