Patent ID: 7650565

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for generating a CAD drawing in a workspace representing a sheet of paper on which the CAD drawing is to be outputted, wherein the CAD drawing includes modeled objects and annotations, said method comprising the steps of: receiving a user input that specifies a first scale for a viewport; generating a drawing in model space of a modeled object having a first size in the viewport in accordance with the first scale; receiving a user input that specifies a fixed size in paper space for annotations to be included in the drawing; generating a first annotation in model space having a size in paper space equal to the fixed size relative to a sheet of paper on which the first annotation is to be output; receiving a user input that specifies a second scale for the viewport; and in response to receiving the user input that specifies the second scale, generating a scaled drawing in model space of the modeled object having a second size, wherein the first annotation in the scaled drawing maintains a size equal to the fixed size in paper space.