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Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 03:42:38 GMT

Hey guys,

Im pretty sure i have drawn my drawing at a tiny scale so when i try and plot it to 1:100 it just disappears so is there anything i can do to fix this?! I assumed i was drawing in meters so 8 meters on the site would equal an 8 when doing the line so yeah ive obviously messed up in doing this. Any help is appreciated!

Cheers guys!

Re: Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 04:02:04 GMT

Attach the drawing and we'll check it out. Could be any number of things.

Re: Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

Mark_C_123 — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 04:22:10 GMT

easy way to fix this just draw a line at the correct distance and use the ''align'' comm and scale based on alignment points.

Re: Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

imadHabash — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:08:35 GMT

Hi,

it seems that it's scale issue status,I suggest to enter the digits { ( 1 - 0.1 ) and mm } see attached image.

Re: Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

GrantsPirate — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:05:33 GMT

Your model is drawn in Meters but the title block is mm so you have to change the scale of the VP by 1000. So if 1:100 is the desired plotting scale, and MS=M and PS=mm scale would be 1 : .1

Re: Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

dgorsman — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:49:32 GMT

@GrantsPirate wrote:

Your model is drawn in Meters but the title block is mm so you have to change the scale of the VP by 1000. So if 1:100 is the desired plotting scale, and MS=M and PS=mm scale would be 1 : .1

1 : 0.1 or 10:1 with whole numbers

Dropping the leading zero on a sub-one value is a pet peeve of mine.

Re: Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:57:14 GMT

Hey guys i appreciate all of the replies! Could someone give me steps from being on the drawing page to plotting at 1:100 on an a2 piece of paper? i have attempted to change the units but the pdf i get is blank! thanks guys.

Re: Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

Mark_C_123 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 01:59:08 GMT

go to your a2 paperspace sheet.

make sure you have a 1:100vp. if you dont the easiest way double click into your vp and at the bottom right hand of your screen click you scale menu ''edit drawing scale'' and create a 1:100. depending on your ''units'' it could be different mine is 1 paper space unit to .1 drawing units.

your vp will adjust.

then plot your a2 sheet. your scale will be 1:1

Hope that helps.

Re: Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:07:34 GMT

does vp stand for viewpoint? and when setting up my page do i make the plot scale 1mm to 10 units? cheers

Re: Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

john.vellek — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:10:57 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Did you get your answers here - you have sent me one drawing. Is that the one you need to print on A2?

Re: Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:20:34 GMT

the drawing i sent you is indeed the drawing i need to scale but i got it wrong and it needs to be at 1:200 on a2

Re: Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

john.vellek — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:26:00 GMT

Hi Jed – I trust you on the scales.

Here is your file with the contours inserted as a block. I then went to Layout 1 and created a Pagesetup to define papersize, plotter (OPDF), plot style, etc.

You will note the paper is set to a scale of 1:1. Then I created viewport and zoomed 1:1

Re: Drawing tiny when scaled 1:100, what am i doing wrong?

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:32:15 GMT

I really do appreciate the help mate it was very kind of you! saved me from a lot of frustration indeed. Thanks to everyone else also for the help!