Paperspace Scale Is Tiny

[Natalie.Donnaw]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to AutoCAD - this is my first year of Uni - and I am trying to scale my drawing to 1/4"=1'-0" in paperspace but it is showing up as tiny. I'm fairly certain all my units are set to Architectural, and the dimensions are all drawn correctly. I'm not sure what else I can try to get the scale to look right.

I've attached the file, any help is very much appreciated.

[fatal.error · Accepted solution]

When typing UNITS, length type is set to Architectural and Insertion scale is set to Inches.

However, if you type DWGUNITS, you'll see Drawing Units set to 3. Millimeters.

Change that value to 1. Inches.

Set Linear display format to Architectural.

Set Linear display precision as desired.

Set Scale objects from other drawings upon insert? to Yes.

Set Scale objects in current drawing to reflect change in units? to No.

Then, with the PAGESETUP command, you need to change every existing Layout Plot Scale to 1 inch = 1 unit.

Lastly, with the SCALE command, you need to scale down every Title Block to 0,03937008.

Next time, to avoid all the above, remember to start every new Imperial drawing with the acad.dwt template.

Otherwise, for Metric projects select the acadiso.dwt template. 

[fatal.error]

When typing UNITS, length type is set to Architectural and Insertion scale is set to Inches.

However, if you type DWGUNITS, you'll see Drawing Units set to 3. Millimeters.

Change that value to 1. Inches.

Set Linear display format to Architectural.

Set Linear display precision as desired.

Set Scale objects from other drawings upon insert? to Yes.

Set Scale objects in current drawing to reflect change in units? to No.

Then, with the PAGESETUP command, you need to change every existing Layout Plot Scale to 1 inch = 1 unit.

Lastly, with the SCALE command, you need to scale down every Title Block to 0,03937008.

Next time, to avoid all the above, remember to start every new Imperial drawing with the acad.dwt template.

Otherwise, for Metric projects select the acadiso.dwt template. 

[Natalie.Donnaw]

Thanks for the help!