Creating Dynamic Viewport Scale Labels in AutoCAD 2018

Fields are an often overlooked but powerful function inside AutoCAD. You can insert a Field into any text in your drawing including multi line text, block attributes, and table cells, The purpose of inserting a field into your drawing is to display a real-time string of data. That data can be anything from the current filename, the length of an entity, or as we're interested in this example - the scale of a viewport.
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[@michaelshakib7777]

Thank you. Just what I was looking for.

[@richardconrad698]

Thank you, very simple and to the point! Curious, i've seen drawings that show a scale bar, that is essentially a ruler on the page, how do I add that?

[@watchmyvideoallday]

Thank you, but is there any way that you could make a block and have the scale update per individual viewport? i.e. Section A-A Scale: 1"-1'-0" and the scale would update per Viewport that I insert the Section Call-Out for?

[@sujityadav4137]

very good

[@santhanakrishnan7827]

Sir when u click the viewport..u get a drop down triangle to select the scale there itself. How should we do that ??

[@TheUtsay]

When I follow the steps the output is "CustomScale", the scale does not update. Help me!!!

[@jfasel29]

Set the viewport scale to an actual scale, like 1"=100' or whatever you use, then regen the drawing, and it should solve your problem.

[@sichen4456]

combine this with sheet set will be a hurge improve