Autocad scaling

[jordanj06]

I’m quite new to Autocad trying to draw a plan at 1:100 in Autocad. I’ve been able to draw at 1:50 and 1:1 successfully and print them off. However I always struggle at 1:100. When I try to draw some measurements at 1:100 in Autocad it’s larger than expected. For example 2000mm scales perfectly when I’m drawing at 1:50 but at 1:100 its huge. I don’t really know how to draw 2000mm to scale at 1:100. I’ve tried 200mm but I don’t know if it’s right. I also struggle to print at 1:100. Could someone help me.

[pendean]

Can you share your actual DWG file here please?

[jordanj06]

https://web.autocad.com/acad/me/sid/shares/drawings/c869d93a-4704-491b-842e-fadcdcf3f29c/editor?data... 

[jordanj06]

https://web.autocad.com/acad/me/sid/shares/drawings/c869d93a-4704-491b-842e-fadcdcf3f29c/editor?data...

[neaton]

Best practices is to draw at 1:1 and use your plot setup to print at different scales.

Nancy

[pendean]

As noted by others, this is not paper drafting anymore: you always draw everything at 1:1 scale 100% of the time in AutoCAD, you never use any other scale, that is exclusively for plotting.

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-resize-or-r....

[jordanj06]

The thing is, I’m trying to draw a site plan on an existing Digimaps 1:100 map and that’s why I’ve been trying to scale so it can fit into that map. However I’m just struggling to do that. 

[paullimapa]

you should scale the map to full size and draw on top of that then no need to struggle.

[jordanj06]

Ok so do I need to change the annotation scale to 1:1 and then enlarge the map to 1:1 or do I keep the annotation scale to 1:100 but still scale to 1:1?

[paullimapa]

Annotation scale is really for plotting but you can have both 1:1 & 1:100 or as many as you like depending on how many scales you plan to plot your map. But the map should be scaled to 1:1 and not be left at 1:100

Then you can draw everything on top at full scale (1:1).

Then in layouts set with specific standard paper sizes like A4, A3, A2, A1 & A0 create vports at different scales like 1:100 for plotting.

[jordanj06]

Thank you!

[jordanj06]

Hi again, so I changed annotated scale to 1:1 and then inserted the digimaps 1:100 map. Then I tried to scale the whole map to 1:1 by making the scale factor 100. However I’m still having problems as measurements I’m drawing are not in scale. 

[paullimapa]

Perhaps your map is not 1:100. After having scaled your map to what you think is now full scale enter the DIST command and select two points on the map that you know should give you the correct measurements. If it does not return the proper measurements then it was not 1:100. 

[jordanj06]

Hi,

Yes I did what you said and so far they seem to be the correct measurements so fsr.

[paullimapa]

So your map has correct measurements then what are you trying to draw on top that’s not giving you proper measurements?  Do some screenshots showing what is incorrect. Can you run the Etransmit command to save everything as a zip and share that file here?

[jordanj06]

I checked with the dist command and I got the proper measurements. I was initially unsure before I used to dist tool.

[paullimapa]

great..so you're good to go now.

[neaton]

 Do your dimensions match the measured distances? Ama008t9y9h9ure If not, are you using a dimstyle that is adding a scale factor to the dimension?