Adding the aeronautical scale bar (Aeronautical Solution)
The Aeronautical Scale Bar tool creates a standard scale bar that can be customized.
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Steps:
- Start ArcMap.
- On the main menu, click View > Layout View.
- On the main menu, click Customize > Toolbars > Aeronautical Layout.
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Click the Aeronautical Scale Bar button
on the Aeronautical Layout toolbar.
A scale bar appears. By default, the scale bar represents the current focus map scale if it is not zero.
Note:
The scale bar is not dynamically linked to the data frame properties; scale changes do not automatically update the scale bar element.
12/22/2014