Annotation scale resetting

Liam Callaghan

 I appear to have ticked a box and reset a system variable that purges and resets my annotation scales each time I open a drawing removing all my pre-set annotation scales.

Anyone know what the variable is so I can fix it or tell me where I replace the default scales with the scales I want to have available?

Cheers in advance and looking forward to being an active member of the forums,

Liam

Jason Bourhill

Hi Liam,

HIDEXREFSCALES for hiding Xref scales is the only setting I'm aware of for Scale Lists. Perhaps you are running some LISP? e.g. This will reset list to defaults.
[code](command "._-SCALELISTEDIT" "_R" "_Y" "_E")[/code]

Regards,

Jason Bourhill

CAD Concepts

Jason Bourhill

Turns out there are other settings.

AUTORESETSCALES will purge unused scales on opening the drawing when set = 1 . The default is 0, which will prompt you each time.

AUTORESETSCALES options
[0] Ask in dialog box (default)
[1] Always purge unneeded scales
[2] Do nothing

Purging unused scales seems to be a response to an issue in AutoCAD around the time this feature was first introduced. AutoCAD would pull through scalelists from xrefs, leading to situation where there could be 1000s of scales listed. This was detrimental to drawing performance.

I would of thought it would be more consistent to expand the _PURGE command to allow for the purging of these definitions, instead of creating a separate mechanism

Regards,

Jason Bourhill

CAD Concepts

Liam Callaghan

 AUTORESETSCALES is the one and did the trick, thanks for that Jason, set it to 2 in the end and not more pop ups.

I then opened the MEL template drawings and applied all my working scales to a single piece of text and added the scales to that text.

Copied and pasted that into the drawings that were reset and then used SCALELISTEDIT and deleted all the imperial and unwanted scales.

Saved and closed.

Good as gold.

The working scales I have are:

1:1 Paperspace

1:1 m

1:5 m

1:25 m

1:50 m

1:100 m

1:250 m

1:500 m

1:1000 m

1:2500 m

Nice and simple list for the guys here to use, they are not very cad literate and a huge list just gives them more issues than not.

Also for anyone having the same issue or others where a system variable has been changed, it can be fixed by restarting Bricscad with the default profile.  Another tip from Jason on the phone this morning.

o7

Michael Rock

 I am just discovering how to work with annotative scales and having some trouble with the scale list.

When exaclty AUTORESETSCALES set to 1 is supposed to purge unused scales?

My problem is with inserting blocks (I rarely use xrefs). Some of the blocks come with many escales, appearently during insert thoes scales are not eliminated.

Also when saving and reopening the drawing, all those scales remain.

A easy way to clean up the scales would be to reset, but I would like to define my own default scales. Any possibility to create a customized scale list as default list?