Autodesk Certified Professional in AutoCAD for Design and Drafting Practice Exam

How can a CAD designer prevent all annotative objects from being affected when an annotation scale is changed?

1. Enable Add Scales for New Objects

2. Deselect the Add Scales to Annotative Objects Scale Changes setting

3. Modify the scale definition in each object

4. Adjust the layer properties for annotation

The correct answer is: Deselect the Add Scales to Annotative Objects Scale Changes setting

To ensure that all annotative objects are not affected when an annotation scale is changed, the key approach is to alter the settings related to how annotation scales are applied to existing objects. Deselecting the "Add Scales to Annotative Objects Scale Changes" setting allows the designer to make modifications to the annotation scale without automatically applying those changes to all annotative objects in the drawing. When this setting is disabled, any changes made to the annotation scale will only apply to new objects created thereafter, while existing annotative objects retain their original scales. This provides greater control, allowing designers to manage their drawing scales more effectively without inadvertently altering already placed annotations that may require specific scales for clarity and alignment. In contrast, adjusting layer properties for annotation primarily affects visibility and organization rather than how scales are applied, modifying each object's scale definition would be time-consuming and impractical for a large number of objects, and enabling options for adding scales can lead to inadvertent changes in an extensive drawing file. Therefore, the option of deselecting the setting directly addresses the issue of maintaining the integrity of existing annotative objects when the annotation scale is modified.