Block Creation (with Annotation Attribute Problems)

If you happen to be making a Block from sketch entities, dimensions and
notes created on a drawing sheet, BEWARE!

As you may have noticed, often (as the Block is made), the scaling of
the dimensions, arrowheads, leaders and notes can become a visual mess
with unintended overlaps and skewed proportions relative to the sketch
entities.

This, unfortunately, is due to the scaling of the drawing sheet being
set to other than 1 to 1.

The moral of the story is to be sure that the sheet scale is defined as
1:1 before spending time carefully laying out any detail which is
intended to become a Block...

Per O. Hoel

 

Yes, a known thing. I also found out a few years ago the hard way that you
always want to build a block on a drawing with a scale of 1:1.

WT

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I am also having problems with SolidWorks blocks. The blocks are a
combination of text, dimensions, and sketch entities. The blocks look
fine when I save them, but when they are inserted back into another
drawing sheet, the text changes. Is there a way to lock the text size
and font into the block and not have it change to whatever is set in
the new drawing's document properties?

P.S. These blocks were created 1:1 on a drawing sheet scale of 1:1.

Susan

 

Our blocks seem to behave properly. How about sending me one or two of
yours and I will try them here.

WT

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