why isn't there a 1"=100' scale?

[Anonymous]

Hopefully this is a dumb question.
The view scale that is in the bottom left corner of a view has the ability to change the scale. But it does not have 1”=100’-0”, it has a bunch of other less (if ever) used scales such as 1”=80’-0” and 1”=160’-0”. How can we add 1”=100’-0” to this list. And more importantly if you input 1:1200 in the custom scale to get 1"=100'-0" it displays 1:1200 on a sheet vs. 1”=100’-0”. How can we override 1:1200 to display 1"=100'-0" on a sheet?

If it is not a dumb question, why didn't the designers of the program pick up an engineering scale and look at the available units on the scale and provide them as an option?

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[Anonymous]

Good question. They goofed.

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Hopefully this is a dumb question.
The view scale that is in the bottom left corner of a view has the ability
to change the scale. But it does not have 1"=100'-0", it has a bunch of
other less (if ever) used scales such as 1"=80'-0" and 1"=160'-0". How can
we add 1"=100'-0" to this list. And more importantly if you input 1:1200 in
the custom scale to get 1"=100'-0" it displays 1:1200 on a sheet vs. 1"=100'-0".
How can we override 1:1200 to display 1"=100'-0" on a sheet?

If it is not a dumb question, why didn't the designers of the program pick
up an engineering scale and look at the available units on the scale and
provide them as an option?

This user is online

[Anonymous]

kenmahood wrote:
> Hopefully this is a dumb question.
> The view scale that is in the bottom left corner of a view has the ability to change the scale. But it does not have 1”=100’-0”, it has a bunch of other less (if ever) used scales such as 1”=80’-0” and 1”=160’-0”. How can we add 1”=100’-0” to this list. And more importantly if you input 1:1200 in the custom scale to get 1"=100'-0" it displays 1:1200 on a sheet vs. 1”=100’-0”. How can we override 1:1200 to display 1"=100'-0" on a sheet?
>
> If it is not a dumb question, why didn't the designers of the program pick up an engineering scale and look at the available units on the scale and provide them as an option?
>
> This user is online
It has been this way for a while so obviously it is a very difficult
programming task to change it. I will wager it won't be changed in 2008
or 2008.1. These things look easy but they obviously are not. Autodesk
would probably have to take someone off the Google Earth Revit
Implementation Team to work it. 🙂

[Anonymous]

J F wrote:
> It has been this way for a while so obviously it is a very difficult
> programming task to change it.

It's the little things like this that make justifying the
time/effort/dollars to convert to a BIM-ish platform (like Revit...)
a tough sell to Management. No matter how parametrically linked, data
enriched, visually stunning, etc. your CAD model is,
when you're asked to "plot me a plan of this at 1:100'" and you're reply is
"I can't"; it's immediatley lost all credibility in many people's eyes.

This is one of my largest misgivings in making a transition from ADT to
Revit.
Possibly, at the risk of a less sophisticated model (and even that's
debatable right now...)
at least in ADT one has a very robust level of User-control. This is, of
course, both a blessing,
and a detriment - I find that I need to exert User control more often that
not.

I also realize that it's not correct to compare ADT(or AutoCAD...) to Revit.
It's certainly not apples-to-apples.
But , if making the switch from an AutoCAD-based product, this issue with
not being able to add
a standard (or custom, for that matter...) output scale; will certianly
raise a few eyebrows...

Autodesk has always tried to peddle a one-size-fits-all solution to
Architectural designers.
With Revit it sounds like the OOTB solution is more a mandate, than a
suggestion?

[Anonymous]

No matter how parametrically linked, data
enriched, visually stunning, etc. your CAD model is,
when you're asked to "plot me a plan of this at 1:100'" and you're reply is
"I can't"; it's immediatley lost all credibility in many people's eyes.

Can't you make a custom scale view which could be 1:100" ??????

[Anonymous]

Alek Sutulov wrote:
> No matter how parametrically linked, data
> enriched, visually stunning, etc. your CAD model is,
> when you're asked to "plot me a plan of this at 1:100'" and you're reply is
> "I can't"; it's immediatley lost all credibility in many people's eyes.
>
> Can't you make a custom scale view which could be 1:100" ??????
You can, but then your view titles and title block will read 1:1200