Retrieve zoom scale

[c.dufrene]

Hi there,

Maybe a "strange" question... (I'm on 2013LT)

In order to prepare WIKI pages for our internal documentation, I made some printscreen from AutoCAD.

As for the moment the source dwg is not too big, I can manage to pan, and take to shot.

But I will move to big dwg and I would like if there's a trick to find the zoom that is actually on my screen, so the shots have all the same scale ?

Thanks.

[steven-g]

Not that strange run the command modemacro and enter this

$M=$(getvar,viewsize)

This will then show you a number in the bottom left hand corner of your screen which is the height of your model view in the current screen, so you can visually check it is Always the same.

However that probably won't be very usefull so here are 3 macro's that might help.

Run this macro to determine how big your monitor is you should only ever need run this once unless you alter the size of your Autocad drawing window.

^C^C^Czoom;1;setenv;screen;$M=$(getvar,viewsize)

In your drawing adjust the view to the size that you want it, and then run this macro, just run this once for each drawing and you will be able to keep the same zoom scale in each view.

^C^C^Csetenv;SF;$M=$(getvar,viewsize)

Now move to your next place in the drawing and run this third macro, and the scale will be altered to be the same as the first one was

^C^C^Czoom;s;$M=$(/,$(getenv,screen),$(getenv,SF))

And if you can follow all that, well done.

[Erense]

I suggest using your paperspace.

Not scaling but only panning in the window with a viewport with set scale.

Printscreen the shown viewport and crop that screenshot.

Or crop the screenshot made when made.

[pendean]

I suggest, instead of scale-less screenshots for your document, that you PLOT to a raster image set to a scale to capture the content you want.
Then when you add to the WIKI pages you match all the image scaling for all the images.

All the other advice is OK for amateur publishers, not publishing pros.

[c.dufrene]

Thanks so far guys, I'll have a look...

@pendean: our need is not that much professional

I quite like the viewport solution.

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