topic Scales in AutoCAD Forum

Scales

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 03:54:22 GMT

Hi! I'm relearning my knowledge of CAD and in terms of using scales, I need to use a scale of 1:200 for my site development plan while 1:100 for floor plans, what are the setups that I need to do before starting the drawings? and should I put both plans on different CAD files or it's just fine to put all the drawings in one, despite the different scales?

Re: Scales

TomBeauford — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 05:09:08 GMT

Depends, for viewing the same model space objects one drawing should be all you need. If the floor plans are completely different that the site plan separate drawings may work out better.

Re: Scales

Valentin_CAD — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 14:11:54 GMT

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Re: Scales

ennujozlagam — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 01:12:30 GMT

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Re: Scales

dbroad — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:20:57 GMT

You can use a single drawing if you use annotative scaling. It can be tricky to implement though. My preference would be to do each in a separate drawing, using the same origin. Xattach each drawing into the other as an overlay. Use separate scales in each drawing. In that scenario, you would either turn off annotative scaling or make sure that annoautoscale is off in both drawings.

Re: Scales

pendean — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:35:36 GMT

>>>...what are the setups that I need to do before starting the drawings...<<<
You do remember that drafting in AutoCAD is always, ALWAYS, done at 1:1 scale, right?
1:200 and 1:100 are print scales, aka for printing only, never for drafting, right? You don't start with a print scale, this is not paper drafting, you draft at 1:1 scale.

And you would use XREF command to "put plan on different CAD files" but that is a different topic altogether.

Hope that refreshed your memory a bit.