DWG Annotation Scale - Need Workmode to Emulate True DWG Methodology

In AutoCAD, most people are now using three variables with Annotation scale to control text , annotative blocks and linetypes.

  • MSTLSCALE
  • PSLTSCALE
  • LTSCALE

Setting all 3 of these to 1 allows annotation scale to control linetypes with text and blocks. We can set our annotation scale in modelspace to match a plotting scale and see WYSIWYG for these things and then when we go to a layout, we can plot at 1:1 with a scaled viewport and assign an annotation scale to the viewport.

In DWG workmode, I was forced to set the LTSCALE in the layout to 12/<annotation scale> to get the linstyles to look correct. And I could not do this if I was in Read Only mode - which in some cases, I am forced to do to utilize object enablers.

For true DWG interoperability, MicroStation needs to be able to emulate this methodology.

I realize that Annotation scale is very different between the two platforms - but it is such a key component of both, that the ability to use either methodology is absolutely essential to claim true interoperability.

If implemented, the annotative nature of ARX Objects must also be supported and function as they do in AutoCAD and its verticals.