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Scale PDF, and reference points

erasmoberrios121 — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 03:26:35 GMT

Hello guys, I can't emphasize how much of a beginner I am, so please bear with me. I somehow managed to learn what I wanted to do by clicking on every possible option I could, and see what happened, literally.

I learned how to import a PDF into Autocad 2017, and somehow figured out how to scale part of the PDF to show info in inches using the Scale option + the reference point option, the drawing utilities/units option, and the Measure command.

I basically want to scale that PDF, and it seems like it's "vector geometry" option worked, because I can select all points/lines (don't know how else to call them), and I know that half of that page is scaled at 1/4''=1ft, but the other half in the same page is scaled 1/2''=1ft.

So I can scale half of the page, and measure as I please that half, but I need to figure out how to select the other half of the same page, and scale it to what it's supposed to.

Sorry if I can't explain well, but here's a pic of what I did well to half of that page:

Re: Scale PDF, and reference points

Juergen_Becker — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 10:42:42 GMT

Hi,

can you please post your PDF.

I will try to scale it. But I'm not familiar with imperial Units (Inches).

Regards Jürgen

Re: Scale PDF, and reference points

RobDraw — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 12:11:14 GMT

Make a copy of the PDF in AutoCAD. Scale it by 2 or 1/2, which ever is appropriate.

Re: Scale PDF, and reference points

scot-65 — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:51:10 GMT

PDF manipulation is marginal in a DWG file.
I have found that by inserting the PDF into a "blank"
drawing, then inserting the blank drawing as a
block into the destination drawing works the best.
From there one can manipulate both the x- and y-
scales for the desired results (for the most part).
One can also rotate the block.

As a footnote, I have not tried to work with multi-
page PDF's, but will go the route of splitting and
using the desired pages as individual blocks.

And welcome to these forums!

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