Scale image to match my drawing.

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 22:48:08 GMT

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Using Autocad LT 2017 for Mac.

I want to draw on an aerial of a building lot to scale. I have good reference distances.

I've gone through the tutorial a few dozen times but my version departs from the instruction whether I approach using ALIGN (command) or SCALE (command) https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/how-to-properly-scale-an-image-after-inserting-into-autocad.html

SCALE option:

I select the image of the aerial I imported and press enter [at this point my program departs from the instructions. i.e. the instructions do not match with what is available on my screen.]

I click at the bottom Left corner of my template to choose my base point, then it goes straight to asking for my reference points (if I press R, as the instructions indicate, it says "Specify scale factor or ... and there is a dropdown saying "Copy" and "Reference" or if i type "R" it acts like its wanting me to type a word that it will give matching options to.

When i skip the "R" step and go straight to clicking on reference points, my image ends up waaay bigger than the document i'm working with, but also is much to small - when i draw a line, it is about 15' across versus the 166' I was going for.

The ALIGN option ends up with my image at an odd angle and also not the right size.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

scale, aerial, image, align, sizing

Re: Scale image to match my drawing.

pendean — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 14:15:38 GMT

This forum is for a Windows based software called http://www.autodesk.com/adt

This is not a forum for "architects" or those that work for/with them.

The dedicated "plain AutoCAD" for MAC forum is over here https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/bd-p/520

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Scale image to match my drawing.

Re: Scale image to match my drawing.