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lorne17

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I have created some generic annotated symbols for our MEP plans and I am curious if there is a setting in the family editor that will allow my symbols to scale when the drawings scale?  Is there a way to do this?  Or do I have to create a new annotated symbol for all my MEP symbols?

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Lorne

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Annotations should scale by default. Check your family to make sure it is set to an annotation category. Go to Settings-->Family Category and Parameters and make sure it is an annotation. If you used the Generic Annotation family template then it should work.

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lorne17

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yea I checked that.  All my MEP symbols that I created are under the Generic Annotations category.  To insert them into the file I use the Drafting>Symbol tool.  Is that correct?  Also I noticed that when I scale my drawing say for a site plan my elevation tags don't scale either.

 Any ideas why?  I can post a few symbols if you need.  Thanks,

Lorne

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lorne17

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Ok so I kind of just realized I'm a moron.  My symbols are scaling with the plans.  They are staying the "same size" with all plans.  So if it's 1'"=400' it's REALLY BIIIG.  If it's 1/4" plan then it's normal size.  Sorry...I guess it is scaling with the plan.  I was thinking backwards.  So my question is this...If say I have a ceiling fan symbol with an editable label, but I want my text to scale and my fan to move with the scale (get smaller when it's supposed to).  How do I do that with one symbol?  Is that possible?  Thanks, sorry for the confusion.

Lorne

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