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layout/print scale

scottwoyka — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:11:46 GMT

Hello all.

Simple question. I'm just getting used to the Web App and am trying to print out some simple templates of components (approx size 182 x 141mm) at 1:1. I have done a layout on A3 but the scaling doesn't appear to be working.... I can only get the components approx the right size with the scale at 1:40.. What's happening please? I have tried everything.

Re: layout/print scale

pendean — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:26:12 GMT

Greetings @scottwoyka
What exactly is not working: you cannot create the layout at the correct size?
Of are you unable to set the VIEWPORT scale to something specific (assuming your modelspace content is correctly drawn and does actually fit on an A3 sheet at that desired scale)?

Use screenshots in your reply so someone here can follow along in AutoCADWEB please.

Re: layout/print scale

scottwoyka — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:30:44 GMT

Thank you @pendean ,

From the attached screenshots, you can see my modelspace. These shapes should fit comfortably filling out a page of a3 at 1:1.

2nd screenshot shows the layout, and the annotation scale set to 1:30. This is approximately how they should appear on the page when it's 1:1. I am aiming to print at 1:1, but the shapes are then tiny on the page: completely the wrong size. Screenshot 3 show the paper set to A3.... Am I doing something wrong or is this not working? thanks 🙂

Re: layout/print scale

pendean — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:48:51 GMT

@scottwoyka wrote:

From the attached screenshots, you can see my modelspace. These shapes should fit comfortably filling out a page of a3 at 1:1.

Forgive me, but how would I know that? I don't see any dimensions on those objects so I can draw them to follow along.

@scottwoyka wrote:

2nd screenshot shows the layout, and the annotation scale set to 1:30.

Annotative scale is about resizing text and dimensions inside a viewport. Your VIEWPORT scale is set to 1:30, and indication that your objects are too small to fill up an entire A3 sheet.

I'm going to guess there is an underlying problem you may not be aware of: what units of measurement do you think you are drawing in? Perhaps you want meters but are drawing in mm, or inches vs feet, or somethin completely different.

Either way, this all goes back to the question I had at the top of this reply: what sizes are those objects? That is where the fix needs to be.

Re: layout/print scale

scottwoyka — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:09:50 GMT

Thank you for responding.

I have put in some dimensions. I suspect you are probably right. I need to change the unit of measurement. I am trying to draw in millimeters. But there doesn't appear to be anywhere in the Web App to do this. I have changed to decimal in settings.... But the factor of 1:30 error might suggest that the error is mm vs feet

Re: layout/print scale

scottwoyka — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:26:39 GMT

hi @pendean ,

the drawing was originally created in Autocad (not the web app) and imported. This may be where the problem originated. I have just started from scratch, and I can now get the components the right size at 1:1 on A3 ...

Re: layout/print scale

pendean — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:35:17 GMT

@scottwoyka If you can share that file over here, I will gladly look at it for you in desktop AutoCAD as well as Web.

Re: layout/print scale

scottwoyka — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:54:42 GMT

Hi @pendean

File attached for you to look at. Thanks,

Scott

Re: layout/print scale

scottwoyka — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:56:20 GMT

Thanks @pendean

file attached

Re: layout/print scale

pendean — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:56:21 GMT

You have to come to the website page here to share files.

Re: layout/print scale

pendean — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:03:39 GMT

Thanks for the DWG file: your dwgunits are set to inches, so this one oval for example is way bigger than an A3 sheet size could ever accommodate if printed at 1:1 scale.

That explains a lot.

Re: layout/print scale

scottwoyka — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:25:42 GMT

Thanks. That explains it.

There doesn't seem to be any way of checking the units in the Web App.
Especially as the dwgunits command is not supported.

J

Re: layout/print scale

pendean — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:50:55 GMT

@scottwoyka As far as I know your DWG file needs to be preset to what you need before using on WEB.

Re: layout/print scale

scottwoyka — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:54:42 GMT

Brilliant. Thanks so much for your help.

I just hope none of my other old files from autocad are in feet and inches.

You're a star. Cheers, S

Re: layout/print scale

hansolason — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:50:18 GMT

I´m in same problem but it seems that I don´t have this line type scale under prop.

Can´t understand why.

Re: layout/print scale

pendean — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:37:02 GMT

@hansolason Is this what you seek?