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CAD and Text in Layout

CAD and Text in Layout

CAD objects, text objects, as well as Any text or CAD objects that you would like
dimensions can be incorporated into to display on multiple pages of your layout
your layout by both including them in your file - for example, a title block and border -
views sent to layout and by drawing them on should be drawn on a page specified as a
the layout page. Page Template. See “Layout Page
Templates” on page 1311.
On the Layout Page
In Views Sent to Layout
CAD and text can be drawn directly on any
layout page, allowing you to create a title CAD, text, and dimensions in views sent to
block, border, as well as notes and other layout are scaled just like other objects in the
annotations. A variety of Layout Info text view. If you want text in a layout view to
macros with information about page print at a particular size, specify its size
number, revisions, and more can be inserted based on the scaling you will use when you
into text objects on layout pages. See “Text send the view to layout. See “Character Size”
Macros” on page 522. on page 490.
You can draw dimension lines on the layout If you rotate a view on the layout page, any
page to help position CAD and text objects, text in that view will rotate as well, provided
as well. Dimensions that locate objects in a that its Text Style is using the Rotate with
view sent to layout, however, should be Plan setting. See “Text Styles” on page 519.
drawn in the original view. See If you wish to use Global Text Macros that
“Dimensions” on page 445.
provide information about a view, such as its
CAD, text, and dimensions created in layout drawing scale or the plan’s file name, make
can be selected, edited, and deleted just as sure that the text object is in the view sent to
they can in other views. See “Editing Text” layout - not on the layout page.
on page 503 and “CAD Objects” on page A number of macros with information about
287.
the layout view can also be added to a layout
To move a text or CAD object to another view’s label as Object Specific Macros. See
page, change the Page number in its “Layout Box Borders and Labels” on page
specification dialog. See “Line Style Panel” 1297.
on page 1304.

Pictures, Metafiles, and PDFs in Layout

Picture files, metafiles, and PDF files can be Pictures, Metafiles, and PDF Boxes” on page
included in views sent to layout or imported 1156.
directly onto a layout page. See “Displaying

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