Viewport scale screwed up

[Anonymous]

Hi there forum,

With the strong believe that there is no such thing as a stupid question, allthough this one might come close, the following questing:

I've made a 2d drawing of an model airplane fuselage of about 700mm wide with the intention to poster print this on A4 or A3 landscape paper. After I set up the page properties in the layout and create a view in it the drawing magicly seems to fit on an A4 landscape. So I guess there is something gone wrong with the scaling. I do need the drawing printed out on a 1:1 scale because I intend to build on top of the drawing.

I'm attaching the file in questing.

I did find other questions about the scaling of viewports... but I did not understand the answers. I would be very pleased if someone would be willing to help me out.

Peter

[user181 · Accepted solution]

After you create the viewport you to select it and change its standard scale in the properties panel or at the bottom of the screen to your desired scale.

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>> an model airplane fuselage of about 700mm wide with the intention to poster print

>> this on A4 or A3 landscape paper. [...]

AutoCAD does not have a function for poster print, you have to create your layouts with viewports by yourself.

>> I do need the drawing printed out on a 1:1 scale

To define the viewports scale select the viewport and chose the scale you need:

After that copy your layout. For each copy you can then use command _-PAN and pan the content of the viewport by the width or height of the viewport.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Internet the way it is supposed to work... 2 good answers in less than an hour. Thanks guys... this helped me a lot.