topic Re: Scaling and Printing in AutoCAD for Mac Forum

Scaling and Printing

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:23:38 GMT

Hi,

I wonder if someone can help me. I have been working on a drawing that I am now plotting, scaling and printing (Well learning to anyway). So I have two view ports in my Layout, one for my "Title Block" and one for my actual drawing. I have zoomed and positioned my drawing to fit the view port, this has given me a custom scale factor of 0.0010. In my title block I have "Scale" section where you enter the scale factors e.g 1:25 (A1), how would I enter 0.0010? Would I just type 0.0010? Have a scaled correctly?

Any advice and help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Cameron.

Re: Scaling and Printing

maxim_k — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 03:09:35 GMT

Hi Cameron,

1:25 scale is 0.04 in decimals, so you need to type 0.04 in the Viewport Custom scale field in the Properties palette (viewport should be selected in the Layout)

Maxim

Re: Scaling and Printing

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 03:23:26 GMT

Hi Maxim,

Thank you for your reply. I'm not sure you have understood my question. I have manually zoomed and positioned my drawing in the view port which has given my a custom scale of 0.0010, how would I indicate this on my drawing?

Have a scaled correctly?

Thanks

Re: Scaling and Printing

maxim_k — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 03:39:33 GMT

If you need to substitute 1:25 scale in the title block for the current actual scale, than 0.0010 should be 1:1000

Maxim

Re: Scaling and Printing

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 06:05:44 GMT

Hi Maxim,

Thank you so much, this is exactly what I was after. Would you mind telling me the calculation for this?

Thanks

Re: Scaling and Printing

maxim_k — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 07:50:44 GMT

Maxim

Re: Scaling and Printing

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:16:30 GMT

Thank you, appreciate it