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Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:28:15 GMT

Hello, I change the scale factor on the drafting view in the sheet. I 've noticed that change the dimension but in the title remain the same scale 1:2.

Is it correct?

Thank's

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

aleksandr.b — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:37:42 GMT

It change there if u change value of View Scale parameter in Drafting View Properties

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:42:41 GMT

@aleksandr.b sorry, the message it is for the other argumet.

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

MostafaElashmawy — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:41:07 GMT

What you changed is the scale of CAD file.

You need to change the scale of the drafting view.

go to the view and in properties change view scale.

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

martijn_pater — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:37:50 GMT

Change scale to what? Actually you would need to do both, for instance set view scale from 1:50 to 1:100 and scale import factor to 2 instead of 1. Or you can scale the .dwg drawing in other ways aswell...

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

MostafaElashmawy — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:40:24 GMT

I think it would be better to have his cad file 1:1 then do the required scaling in the drafting view scale.

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

martijn_pater — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:57:00 GMT

Ofcourse, but apparently it's not...you can also set custom scale in relation to different import scale factors in case you don't have the tools to scale it 1:1 elsewhere that is.

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

RDAOU — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:11:25 GMT

@Anonymous

You use that to scale imported / linked CAD to match or achieve the appropriate Scale of the view. Sometimes you received from other consultants several DWG with various scales...in order to save time and not open those file in their native software (example: AutoCAD/sketchup/Rhino) and Rescale / Save and Load into Revit, they provided this option 🙂(Sometimes you don't even have those software to scale the details)

this way if you receive a detail 1/10 CAD which you want to use on a 1/5 Revit Drafting view, you simply add a scale factor to the imported CAD...

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

martijn_pater — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:38:22 GMT

You can also just scale it using scale function (shortcut RE) apparently, and then set the view scale for the drafting view. Didn't know that, I always try to import drawings scale 1:1 anyway 😉

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:00:00 GMT

@martijn_pater @MostafaElashmawy @RDAOU

so when I modify the scale factor I modify the dimension of .dwg file (pic 1)?

And when modufy "view scale "(pic 2) I modify the View Scale in Drafting View?

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

MostafaElashmawy — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:05:36 GMT

Yes you can say so.

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

martijn_pater — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:22:31 GMT

I think it is what you are saying, but just to recap then. The dwg drawing itself doesnt change, just its dimensions multiplied by import factor. If you would import the same drawing with different import factor it's just larger/smaller in relation to the selected view scale. But like I said, if you know a dimension you can also scale(RE) the dwg to the correct size for the view scale and place it on a sheet ie.

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

RDAOU — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:02:07 GMT

@martijn_pater @Anonymous

You could use RE however, the advantage of Scale Factor to imported CAD is when you need to import/link a CAD file with several detail to multiple views of different view scales...When you use Scale Factor, you do not need to rescale every instance of the linked CAD over and again... the idea is to save time and abortive work

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:07:16 GMT

@RDAOU RE change dimension only in the view you work in that moment and Scale Factor in all the project?

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

RDAOU — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:38:27 GMT

@torrenti

The scale factor is given to the linked/imported CAD (it is a type property)… meaning

if you create one drafting view scale 1/10 and you set a scaling factor for the CAD link you inserted in this view,
NEXT time you create a drafting view 1/5 or 1/2 or any view scale and you need to use the same CAD file on these views >>>> you do not need to rescale it on the other views. Revit uses the scale factor you used the first time.

Example: when you import a CAD file X which uses Feet to a Revit project using Millimeter...you set the Scale Factor one time and you can then use the CAD file X on any drafting view with any view scale

Re: Change factor scale in a drafting view but remain the same in sheet

martijn_pater — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:53:34 GMT

The answer really was in post #5 though imho^^. The question was to change scale of the linked dwg but stay the same on sheet.

@RDAOU Ps. I got what RE does, checked if import scale changed with that first thing:)...just always had the imports 1:1 with same units actually as far as I know 😄