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In the past, if a user didn’t have Inventor installed and wanted to view Inventor files, Inventor view was the solution.  But in 2020, Autodesk released a “new” viewer for Inventor file types (.ipt, .iam, .idw, .dwg, .ipn, .ide) called “Inventor Read-Only Mode".  Non Inventor and non-cad users will have the ability to open and view Inventor files without needing a license. 

This tech tip shows the power of AutoCAD’s Annotation Scaling. Annotation Scaling allows you to create a final print in Paper Space that has multiple scale factors of a model but clean automatically sized annotations. The annotations automatically adjust to the scale factors that you set up in your viewports.

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