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Zoom to 1: some scale-How?

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Anonymous
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Zoom to 1: some scale-How?

Can any one tell me how to zoom a drawing to a particular scale, say 1:400.
Is this absolute zooming or relative zooming w.r.t current zoom?
Any help is most appreciated.

Thanks,
MNRaghu
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Message 2 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

That is one of the slight advantages of model/paper
space.

Like Sam90 said, if you are looking
through a viewport in model space and issue the zoom command using the "Times
Paperspace" or XP option, you will get the desired zoom factor.

If you're talking about just zooming the monitor
screen to an known scale factor, this can't be done reliably because of screen
sizes and display settings.

 

- Jim


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Can
any one tell me how to zoom a drawing to a particular scale, say 1:400.
Is
this absolute zooming or relative zooming w.r.t current zoom?
Any help is
most appreciated.

Thanks,
MNRaghu

Message 3 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Command:Z, 1/400XP
Message 4 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Try using this little pulldown menu
***MENUGROUP=VP
***POP1
[VP Scale]
[->$(if,$(or,$(getvar,tilemode),$(=,$(getvar,cvport),1),$(and,$(getvar,viewmode),1)),~)Zoom to &Scale]
ID_ACETVPSCAL[&List Viewport Scale]^C^Cvpscale
[->&Architect]
zoomxp [1/32"]'.zoom 1/384xp
zoomxp [1/16"]'.zoom 1/192xp
zoomxp [3/32"]'.zoom 1/128xp
zoomxp [1/8" ]'.zoom 1/96xp
zoomxp [3/16"]'.zoom 1/64xp
zoomxp [1/4" ]'.zoom 1/48xp
zoomxp [3/8" ]'.zoom 1/32xp
zoomxp [1/2" ]'.zoom 1/24xp
zoomxp [3/4" ]'.zoom 1/16xp
zoomxp [1" ]'.zoom 1/12xp
zoomxp [1½" ]'.zoom 1/8xp
zoomxp [3" ]'.zoom 1/4xp
zoomxp [6" ]'.zoom 1/2xp
zoomxp [<-Full]'.zoom 1xp
[->&GIS]
zoomxp [1:100 ]'.zoom 0.01xp
zoomxp [1:200 ]'.zoom 0.005xp
zoomxp [1:250 ]'.zoom 0.004xp
zoomxp [1:500 ]'.zoom 0.002xp
zoomxp [1:1000 ]'.zoom 0.001xp
zoomxp [1:2000 ]'.zoom 0.0005xp
zoomxp [1:2500 ]'.zoom 0.0004xp
zoomxp [1:5000 ]'.zoom 0.0002xp
zoomxp [1: 10000]'.zoom 0.0001xp
zoomxp [1: 20000]'.zoom 0.00005xp
zoomxp [<-1: 50000]'.zoom 0.00002xp
[--]
zoomxp [ 1:2500]'.zoom 1/2500xp
zoomxp [ 1:1250]'.zoom 1/1250xp
zoomxp [ 1:1000]'.zoom 1/1000xp
zoomxp [ 1:500]'.zoom 1/500xp
zoomxp [ 1:200]'.zoom 1/200xp
zoomxp [ 1:100 ]'.zoom 1/100xp
zoomxp [ 1:50 ]'.zoom 1/50xp
zoomxp [ 1:20 ]'.zoom 1/20xp
zoomxp [ 1:10 ]'.zoom 1/10xp
zoomxp [ 1:5 ]'.zoom 1/5xp
zoomxp [ 1:2 ]'.zoom 1/2xp
zoomxp [ 1:1 ]'.zoom 1xp
Message 5 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Thanks Sam, Jim and Dellboy.
You all have told me on how to zoom to a scale.
My another doubt here is, this seems to be a relative zooming method where the zoom to scale is relative to the current zoom, not absolute zoom;i.e., this is not a method which zooms to a view that remains constant in size to visualise on the screen from which ever the current zoom I am.

Any comments on this issue please?

MNRaghu
Message 6 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

From the Help file:

Zooms the display at a specified scale factor.

Enter a scale factor (nX or nXP): Specify a value

The value you enter is relative to the limits of the drawing. For example,
entering 2 doubles the apparent display size of any objects from what it
would be if you were zoomed to the limits of the drawing.



If you enter a value followed by x, AutoCAD specifies the scale relative to
the current view. For example, entering .5x causes each object to be
displayed at half its current size on the screen.



If you enter a value followed by xp, AutoCAD specifies the scale relative to
paper space units. For example, entering .5xp displays model space at half
the scale of paper space units. The following illustration shows a number of
viewports arranged in paper space. The view in each viewport is scaled
relative to paper space. The first view is scaled 1=1 relative to paper
space (1xp), the second is scaled .5=1 relative to paper space (.5xp), and
so on.




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Message 7 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Thanks Tracy.
This satisfied me.
Another question, a different issue, but related to you-
How did you get the reply formatted beautifully with all the sentences in a different lines? My sentences get jumbled up every time I post to discussion forum? Any way formal way to do this?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

MNRaghu
Message 8 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

If you access these discussion groups via the HTTP interface it does not
represent the ENTER or line feed well and things appear scrambled.

If you access these discussion groups with an NNTP Newsreader you can
see the formatting.
Some users prefer to post in HTML (IMHO this is a waste of space), I
prefer plain text.

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Please, DO NOT send technical requests to me via private e-mail
**************************************************************

Tracy W. Lincoln
Assistant Moderator - Autodesk Discussion Forums

Discussion Group Links:
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Index: http://discussion.autodesk.com
Rules: http://discussion.autodesk.com/webx?groundrules
Message 9 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

To add to Tracy's post:

Unfortunately the HTTP web side of the newsgroups is not allowing
carriage returns to show properly. Messages there show as one
long line that just keeps wrapping. This is a known problem and
scheduled for repair.

If you are able to use the NNTP newsgroup reader side of the
newsgroups, carriage returns show properly.

A user posted this tip on properly spaced lines/paragraphs from
the HTTP side:

Place your text or code between a pair of PRE /PRE html tags:



Line 1
Line 2
Line 3



or

If you're faced with one of those posts and want to get a clearer
picture, a quick solution is to view the HTML source. If you're
using another browser the commands might be slightly different,
but for Internet Explorer right-click somewhere on the message in
question and from the popup menu select View Source. Notepad will
open up with the HTML source in it. Press F3 and search for
something unique in the post. You will then see the message as
the originator posted it in plain text.

---
Anne Brown
Manager, Moderator
Autodesk Product Support discussion groups
Discussion Q&A: http://www.autodesk.com/discussion

RaghuMN wrote:
>
> Thanks Tracy.
> This satisfied me.
> Another question, a different issue, but related to you-
> How did you get the reply formatted beautifully with all the
> sentences in a different lines?
Message 10 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Thanks for the information Tracy and Anne.
-MNRaghu

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