Hi,
>> zooming my layout in paperspace to its actual size (so scale 1:1)
Sorry, impossible. Imagine you have 2 monitors, one 14" and a second one 32" and these are cloned (showing the same duplicated content) ... how should AutoCAD know which monitor you are looking to?
The best to do is to make sure you are in paper-space, run command _DIST and pick 2 points, e.g. from a text lower and upper point (here it sometime makes sense to not use object snap).
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@revitWGQFX wrote:
I'm having troubles with zooming my layout in paperspace to its actual size (so scale 1:1).
For example : I've put my drawing viewport on a paper with size A1. As this paper size is quite big, I want to make sure if my text and objects aren't too small or too big. So I want to zoom in 100% (like you do in Word or in Acrobat). Ofcourse the A1 won't fit on my little computer screen but in this way I can check how it will be printed before waisting a lot of testprints.
To make the layout viewport scale 1:1, make the viewport active (double click inside) and use zoom XP (use the same command for other scales). However, a scale of 1:1 on Paper or Model will most likely not fit on your screen. Recommend reading: About Setting the Plot Scale.
Text is usually related to the scale. In a typically decimal based drawing, a scale of 1:1 would have a text height of .10 (L100), which you multiply if another scale is used. Unless you use Annotative scale - read about it here: How to use annotative text and dimensions in AutoCAD.
Create PDFs to avoid wasting paper (use the DWF to PDF).
If you have the distance of the screen height covered by the visible drawing area, ZOOM's Center option and Lower-left-corner option [which for some reason doesn't appear in the prompt in my Acad2019, but is available] both ask for a height. Put a ruler on the screen and measure the vertical extent, in whatever the drawing unit is, of the visible drawing area, and give that as the height in ZOOM C or L. The result will be accurate to the accuracy of your on-screen measurement. You can PAN around if it doesn't come out showing what you want to check.
If you always have the visible drawing area at the same on-screen height, and never change the shape of the AutoCAD window in a way that affects that, a very simple routine could be written to use that height and do the ZOOM for you in a little command definition or Tool Palette button or something. This would do it around the current center of view [to be used in paper space]:
(defun C:ZFS (); = Zoom Full Scale
(command "_.zoom" "_center" (getvar 'viewctr) YourDrawingAreaOnScreenHeight)
)
@Kent1Cooper wrote:
....[to be used in paper space]:
(defun C:ZFS (); = Zoom Full Scale
(command "_.zoom" "_center" (getvar 'viewctr) YourDrawingAreaOnScreenHeight)
)
I should clarify about paper space. It can be used in model space when you're "fully" in model space, or in a Layout when you're out in paper space there. It just can't be used when in a Layout but in model space inside a Viewport.
Or, as a command macro in a Tool Palette button [without the commonly-used initial ^C^C cancels because 'ZOOM can be used transparently]:
'ZOOM C (getvar 'viewctr) YourDrawingAreaOnScreenHeight
you can change that here by using cmd pagesetup again if you are facing the same.. tick the fit to paper option it will make you perfect.
