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$PRP:SCALE

$PRP:SCALE

$PRP:SCALE

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Can anybody think of a property I am missing that would allow SW to report the scale of a specific view in an annotation.

RE: $PRP:SCALE

Sorry, but I don't think you can do this associatively in a note.  There have been previous threads on this and I know a macro was posted that put the view scale in a note, but I don't believe it would update if the view scale was changed.

RE: $PRP:SCALE

CBL,

Thanks for the links back in time.  Looking over these links, I was thinking there might be one way to have a nearly auto-updating scale note for a view, that being if SW allows macro features in drawings.  The macro would have to know which view(s) require their information to be updated, and would have to know how to keep the note in those views updated.  It's still pretty complex.

Also, I've never tried putting a macro feature in a drawing, and don't know if it possible.  Anyone else tried doing that?

Matt Lorono
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