topic Re: Scale Drwg Border in AutoCAD Forum

Scale Drwg Border

s.noke71 — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:50:16 GMT

Hi Guys,

would i be possible for somebody to scale this border to A4 & A3

Thanks

Re: Scale Drwg Border

imadHabash — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:54:53 GMT

HI,

since i can't open your dwg ( i need it in AutoCAD 2013 format ) . would you tell us what is the problem that you face ?

Regards,

Re: Scale Drwg Border

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:13:39 GMT

Hi,

you can use command _SCALE with option _REFERENCE to scale your geometry based on the current width to the new width (297 for A4 or 420 for A3).

In the command-line:

_SCALE<ENTER>

_ALL<ENTER>

<ENTER>

<select the base point, I would say lower left point>

_REFERENCE<ENTER>

<pick lower left point>

<pick lower right point>

420<ENTER>

Now you need to adjust the paper space using command _PAGESETUP ... Modify to set the layout to A3

Does that help?

- alfred -

Re: Scale Drwg Border

s.borello — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:23:39 GMT

Any interest in learning how to do this yourself?

Re: Scale Drwg Border

Tomislav.Golubovic — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:29:10 GMT

Hint - don't scale drawing borders, work in paper space and model space so that you don't need to do scaling 🙂

Re: Scale Drwg Border

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:30:52 GMT

Hi,

>> don't scale drawing borders

Working in layouts needs different border-blocks/title-blocks, e.g. one for A4 and one for A3, ...

- alfred -

Re: Scale Drwg Border

scot-65 — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 22:06:41 GMT

There was a time when I worked on 24x36 and 30x42 media.
If one notices, the x/y ratio for each is different.
Therefore, scaling is not the correct application.
Instead, STRETCH.

-OR- Scale for one axis (using reference), then stretch
in the other axis to finish.

[I do not know at this time the x/y ratio for A4 and A3 medias]

???