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Scale aerial to draw on

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Scale aerial to draw on

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Any help will be greatly appreciated!


Using Autocad LT 2017 for Mac.

I want to draw on an aerial of a building lot to scale. I have good reference distances.

I've gone through the tutorial a few dozen times but my version departs from the instruction whether I approach using ALIGN (command) or SCALE (command) https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/how-to-p...

SCALE option:
I select the image of the aerial I imported and press enter [at this point my program departs from the instructions. i.e. the instructions do not match with what is available on my screen.]
I click at the bottom Left corner of my template to choose my base point, then it goes straight to asking for my reference points (if I press R, as the instructions indicate, it says "Specify scale factor or ... and there is a dropdown saying "Copy" and "Reference" or if i type "R" it acts like its wanting me to type a word that it will give matching options to.

When i skip the "R" step and go straight to clicking on reference points, my image ends up waaay bigger than the document i'm working with, but also is much to small - when i draw a line, it is about 15' across versus the 166' I was going for.

The ALIGN option ends up with my image at an odd angle and also not the right size.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.


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ALIGN adds an angle when you add the angle as you select the aligning points.

Draw a LINE in your DWG file to the exact length of the known dimension in the image. Ideally draw that line starting at the start point of the known dimension on the image itself.
SCALE command with the Reference Option can then be used as explained here https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/getting-started/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Aut...

Post back if you get stuck.

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Scale still wasn't working for me, but Lengthen did work.

Thanks so much for helping me out!