scale in layout

[Anonymous]

Hi!

I have a drawing with approximately 50 thousand square meters. For the drawing to appear integer (inside the viweport = the sheet = A0 in the layout, I have to provide a scale of 3: 1 why I had to enlarge, why not reduce (eg 1: 500 or 1: 1000)

thanks

[user181 · Accepted solution]

Your scale list is incorrect. It looks like it came from a drawing done in inches and feet. You will need to use the SCALELISTEDIT command and modify the scales.  You need to divide the number on the right of the :  by 1000.  Examples as follows:

1:10  -   1 mm = 0.01 meters

1:20  -   1 mm = 0.02 meters

1:100  -  1 mm = 0.10 meters

1:200  -  1 mm = 0.20 meters

etc.

I attached a standard metric template from autocad to see the scalelist or you can probably just open the metric template that came with your autocad.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

The model components are draw with unit = 1 METER

The layout you're trying to use is 1 unit = 1 Millimeter.  In the layout 1:100 is 1 unit = 100mm, your model is 1000 times smaller than it should be so it would appear as 1 unit is 100 METERS.

Instead of a viewport being 1194 units by 835 units make your viewport (paper size) match the model scale 1 ,194 x 0 ,835 (meters to meters), then set the scale of the viewport to 1:100

With a sheet a little over one meter long (1 ,194) at a scale of 1:100 the viewport will display about 100 meters of your 300+/- meter long model.

To make it work in a millimeter sheet/viewport size at a true scale of 1:100 the viewport scale will need to be 10:1 to fit 100 meters in a sheet 1 ,194mm long.  (scale is 1000/100 = 10/1)