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Don't go overboard and select every scale in the list — select only the
scales you're likely to use.
15. Click OK.
After you've assigned annotative scales to a hatch (or any annotative) object, you
see a pair of triangular annotative object symbols. Don't worry — although you
are
seeing double, you've done it right!
16. Open the Annotation Scale drop-down list on the application or drawing status
bar and select one of the scales you added to the object.
The annotative hatch objects will change their spacing as you change the annota-
tion scale. If you select a scale from the list that you didn't assign to the object in
Step 14, the hatch reverts to the default 1:1 scale.
Figure 15-6 shows two versions of the same drawing, dressed up with annotative and
non-annotative hatch patterns. As the annotation scales displayed on the drawing status
bars show, the annotative hatches change their scale while the non-annotative hatches
remain unchanged. Before annotative hatching first appeared in AutoCAD 2008, the only
way to get the effect in these two views was to create two separate layers, one for each
hatch scale, and hatch the object twice.
Figure 15-6:
Hatches annotative (and not).
Do fence me in: Defining hatch boundaries
