Draughting 2D

[Anonymous]

Hello Community,

I have opened a large floor plan - half of the blocks (door, windows) are showing at a much smaller scale.

Is there a way to change their size globally?

GSD

[Charles_Shade]

WBLOCK a piece of your drawing and post it here if you cannot or are not allowed to post the entire file.

Also, any Imperial to Metric scalng going on with your work?

[pendean]

And what scale is that? Use DIST or PROPERTIES command and figure out if there is a scale or size that may give you a clue about why that is the case and how to fix it.

PROPERTIES command is the place to also fix these "scales".

[Anonymous]

Hello Charles,

I trust this is what you need - the base dwg has a long history (of abuse?)
I've been tempted to start from scratch.

There could well be conversions from Imperial to metric previously.

Thanks for your interest.

Regards,

Gray Swain

Mob: 07913 781 496

E-mail: grayaswain@gmail.com

[Anonymous]

Hello 'pendean',

Thank you for your interest - can we have an hiatus on comms for now. I no
longer use the defpoints layer and yes there may well be a scaling issue at
the base of this. I will revert.

Kind regards,

Gray Swain

Mob: 07913 781 496

E-mail: grayaswain@gmail.com

[Charles_Shade]

If you meant to post something there is no attachment

[Anonymous]

I'll try again Charles. g

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hello Charles,

Attached is portion of the dwg in query - trust it serves the purpose.

Regards,

Gray

[pendean · Accepted solution]

You did not do as I suggested, actually measuring anything, did you 😞  You could have solved this on your own.

Your metric walls (it should be 100mm, but in your file, 8'-4" wide) have 36mm doors in them (these should be 36" doors).

Your file is a bad scaled mess, it's an Metric plan inside an Imperial scale DWG file where the plan was not scaled correctly.

AutoCAD only understands UNITS as, well, nothing but UNITS. we humans determine if a unit is mm or inch or mile. Rescale your file to be Imperial scale if you work in inches, or change the scale of your doors and windows to be in mm and not inches: explore using -DWGUNITS command to fix it.

[Anonymous]

Hello Dean,

Thank you for this - I can appreciate your frustration - although I did not take any measurements I was aware of the mixed scaling problem but did know really whwere to start.

So armed with your advice and the tools you have indicated I can proceed to sort out the dwg.

Sadly this is a hugh base plan, probably pre-2004, which was clearly set-up as imperial with efforts made over the years to convert to metric.

We are working in metric, so wish me luck.

Kind regards,

Gray

[pendean · Accepted solution]

No frustration intended my friend, just pointing to the obvious, if you read more than that in my reply I do apologize.

Measuring items in the file, vs assuming they are correct, is the #1 thing you must engage in to identify problems like these. Hopefully you will do so moving on.