topic Re: Scale Issue when Plotting in AutoCAD Forum

Scale Issue when Plotting

jordanA6ZXJ — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:03:23 GMT

Hi, I'd greatly appreciate some help. I am trying to plot a floorplan but when I set my scale to 1:50 it zooms way out. I'm not sure what I have changed. I've attached the file if that helps.

Would appreciate help on this. Thanks.

Re: Scale Issue when Plotting

deenukumar — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:27:54 GMT

Generally the plot settings will be in either "inches" or "mm". The drawing is prepared in meters.

1. Right click on the layout and go to page setup.

2. Change the units to mm.

3. Type "1000" in the box before the "mm".

4. Type "1" in the box before the "unit".

5. Click ok. and exit the page setup.

6. Select all the objects in the layout and scale to "0.001".

7. Now select the Vport and change the scale to 1:50.

There you go.

Good luck.

Re: Scale Issue when Plotting

imadHabash — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:28:17 GMT

Hi,

i think that you have to adjust your VP size . it's too big for that small plans.

Re: Scale Issue when Plotting

Moshe-A — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:47:25 GMT

@jordanA6ZXJ hi,

i totally agree with @deenukumar and would like to add:-

your current layout is now in mm, after scaling it by 0.001 it will be in meters

your overall paper size would be 0.7x0.6 meters and a 4mm the text height in your title block

would be 0.004 and 2mm would be 0.002. true, this is an inconvenient values to work with

but that's enable you to select 1:50 scale and have a real 1:50 drawing 😀

in general your object should be a model space units synchronized with paper space units e.g if you choose mm for paper space you should select mm for model space otherwise you would have to fake the scale ratio in SCALELISTEDIT command.

enjoy

Moshe

Re: Scale Issue when Plotting

jordanA6ZXJ — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:20:08 GMT

Thank You!!! Sooo so grateful!!!

Re: Scale Issue when Plotting

jordanA6ZXJ — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:23:00 GMT

Thank you, I agree with you.

I am new to all this and the drawings I create for myself are mm in model space so I haven't experienced this before. The guy who sent me this file had been working in N4ce in metres.

Grateful for the advice.