import scales from a drawing

[achillesgr]

hello,

is it possible to import scales from one drawing to another?

i get many drawings every day from other people and i want to import my own scales from my own templete.

is it posible?

i thought to copy the objects to my own templates but i will loose the layouts from the originals. i will heve then again to import the layouts....

can someone plese help? there must be a simplest way..

thanks

[victoribarra10]

There is no command yet or at least I think there is not a command yet where you can import scales from other drawings but there are tricks. One of them is this:

Open an existing drawing from an old project that has all the scales you need.

Use the MTEXT Command and just type something in whatever you want.

Select the text and right-click and go to PROPERTIES.

In the PROPERTIES menu, go down to the TEXT section and look for ANNOTATIVE and it should say YES or NO next to it.

If it's No, switch it to Yes and then exit the PROPERTIES.

Right-click on the text again and go to ANNOTATIVE OBJECT SCALE and then to ADD/DELETE SCALES.

It should list all the scales that are being used by the drawing so just select all the ones you need and then hit ADD.

Your text has the scales you need so now you can do a copy by CTRL-C.

Then go to you the drawing where you want to import all your scales into.

And then do a CTRL-V which is a paste command.

The text you paste into the drawing should bring all the scales you added in to the text and should now be in your drawing.

Tell me if you have any trouble.

[dhenderhan]

Awesome hack! Been wanting to do this for years!

[cwr-pae]

SLICK!

[cwr-pae]

In addition to @victoribarra10 's slick trick, if you insert a drawing into another it will bring all its scales, then delete the inserted drawing block.