Notes

[Anonymous]

Ok, so at work we put a fair few notes on the page. I guess you could say a lot of what would normally be in the specifications is on our plans (it just seems that if it's right there in front of the builder, it means he has less chance of messing it up).

I'm wondering, because right now I'm putting these notes on the layout directly as text boxes so it doesn't show up in the 'scales' autotext as 1:1, can you make the notes in, say a project index and import it without the 'scales' autotext being affected? or even an unlinked detail would work - provided it doesn't show up in the scales.

Or should I carry on the way I've been doing it so far?

[Bruce]

I just figured out a work-around - for those who want to know (stop calling, please. I'm not getting anything done )

Put the autotext scale on the master, and for the 5% of sheets that screw it up, put on some text with an opaque background. This will cover up the master and allow you to hide the uglies.

Of course, you have to make sure "Text Wrapping" is turned off for the Master Scale text.

[Anonymous]

i used to have this same dilemma, but since so many sheets contain drawings with different scales, or not to scale, i found the vast majority of my sheets contained "as noted" in the sheet scale note. So I have eliminated the scale note from my sheet title block and have shown the scale in the drawing title only. This is a much simpler solution, and would allow for as many scales as you can fit onto a sheet.