Unable to print same drawing, in diffident scales, in same sheet (A4), in C3D,

[JamaL9722060]

Unable to print same drawing, in diffident scales, in same sheet (A4), in C3D,

I wanted to print a drawing (attached) in different scales (1/100, 1/2500, 1/5000) in the same sheet (A4) in the C3D but sounds not to work (attached)!

At which viewport scale this drawing might be successfully printed?

In the regular AutoCAD this drawing is quite easy to be printed (attached)!

Thank you

Best

[neilyj666]

Looks like some sort of metric / imperial conversion problem - are you starting Civil 3D from a metric template?

I copied and pasted the m.dwg into a new template drawing and the created viewports were ok

[JamaL9722060]

Thank you neilyj for the help and the screenshot,

I’m using “AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 - English Metric” and the units of my drawing are meter. Nevertheless, it didn’t work with me

In the regular AutoCAD, I could set these three scales (1/1000, 1/2500/ 1/5000) in the same sheet while in the C3D I couldn’t!

Then which viewport scale should I choose to have the (1/1000, 1/2500/ 1/5000) (attached)?

Could you please send me back the file with correct scales appearing in the screenshot? I need to try it in my machine!

What other issues might be related to this issue?

[neilyj666]

The text labels are behaving as intended - your text label is set to be 3mm and in the attached the text is 3mm in all 3 viewports (1000,2500 and 5000) if the scales went to 500 and 250 the labels would be legible (but still would be 3mm high)

The only way to get around this I suspect will be to create new styles and set the text to be 1.5mm.

I'd question though the need to label viewports of this size with text at 1:2500 and 1:5000 - they are a bit small to actually see anything??

[JamaL9722060]

Thank you very much neilyj for the prompt help,

• Sure, it might not make sense to have those scales (1/1000, 1/2500, 1/5000) for my drawing on an A4 paper size. Just I wanted to produce a sample.

• Unfortunately, I couldn’t know how to control the size of the contour text (attached) and then to switch it to 1.5mm. May you please elaborate about this issue.

• The screenshot looks gorgeous! I failed to generate them anyway. Could you please

1. Send me their dwg file
2. Indicate the viewport choice (attached)
3. The plot scale (attached)
4. The text height

Best

Jamal