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• Overview of Creating Annotative Objects

  When you add annotations to your drawing, you can turn on the Annotative property for those objects. These annotative objects are scaled based on the current annotation scale setting and are automatically displayed at the correct size

• Work with Annotative Styles

  You can minimize the steps to annotate a drawing by using annotative styles.

• Create Annotative Text

  Use annotative text for notes and labels in your drawing. You create annotative text by using an annotative text style, which sets the height of the text on the paper.

• Create Annotative Dimensions and Tolerances

  You can create annotative dimensions for measurements in your drawing through annotative dimension styles.

• Create Annotative Leaders and Multileaders

  Leaders and multileader are used to add call outs to your drawings. You can create annotative leaders through an annotative dimension style and multileaders through an annotative multileader style.

• Create Annotative Blocks and Attributes

  If you want to use geometric objects to annotate your drawing, combine the objects into an annotative block definition.

• Create Annotative Hatches

  Use an annotative hatch to symbolically represent material such as sand, concrete, steel, earth, etc.