With this method, the sheet border is placed at full size and the design information is scaled up or down to fit inside the border, similar to how drawings are created with manual drafting. All text and dimensioning is placed at full size. When you create a Sheet model, you select Full Size for the Annotation Scale. Additionally, if required, you can specify the origin of the sheet boundary and its rotation.

In this case, with Annotation Scale set to Full Size, the sheet boundary element appears at its real-world size (not scaled). This is a non-printing element that shows you the outer limits of the sheet size that you choose. You can reference your own border file at Full Size (with no scale factor) and associate it to the sheet boundary.

References of the design are placed at the appropriate scales as required, to fit inside the sheet/border layout. For a 1m = 200m, or 1:200 scale drawing, the design model references will be placed in the Sheet model at a scale of 1:200. Similarly, any details that are at different scales are simply referenced at the required scale. For example, a 1m = 20m, or 1:20 scale detail would be referenced at 1:20 scale. You place text in the Sheet model at exactly the size that you want in the printout. When you print your "drawings" they are printed with the scale set to full-size (1:1).

When attaching a reference (a design or drawing model) into a sheet model, the referenced model's annotation scale is applied as the detail scale, and the Reference Scale (Master:Ref Scale) is calculated from the referenced model's annotation scale and the active model's annotation scale. For example,

1. If you have a design model A, whose annotation scale equals 1/8" = 1'-0" and a sheet model, whose annotation scale equals Full Size 1 = 1. When referencing model A into the sheet, its Detail Scale will be 1/8" = 1'-0", reference scale (Master:Ref) will be 1:96.
2. If you have a design model A, whose annotation scale equals 1/8" = 1'-0" and a sheet model, whose annotation scale equals 1/2” = 1'–0”. When referencing model A into the sheet, its Detail Scale will be 1/8" = 1'-0", reference scale (Master:Ref) will be 1:4.
3. If you have a design model A, whose annotation scale equals 1:50 and a sheet model, whose annotation scale equals Full Size 1 = 1. When referencing model A into the sheet, its Detail Scale will be 1:50, reference scale (Master:Ref) will be 1:50.
4. If you have a design model A, whose annotation scale equals 1:50 and a sheet model, whose annotation scale equals 1:10. When referencing model A into the sheet, its Detail Scale will be 1:50, reference scale (Master:Ref) will be 1:5.