How to establish right scale (1:100 for instance) before printing?
That depends on a few things. Is the drawing properly set up as metres, you can see the units used in the 'units' command, (but don't change it there) the correct method to change a drawing's units is the '-dwgunits' command which give you a set of prompts to change various values, but I would have to be careful telling you to do that if the drawings are coming from an external source/client if you then need to send copies of the dwg files back.
One really important factor is, what do you consider 1:100 to be, is it
1mm on paper = 100mm on the ground, or
1mm on paper = 100 metres on the ground
so what size paper are you printing to and how big is the area you are printing, it would be much easier to comment if you can post a dwg file so we can see the sizes involved.
There is nothing attached? But something sounds off 10mm = 1 meter is not normally how I would expect to see a drawing done in meters, it should be 1 unit = 1 meter, it sounds more like the Architect is using Decimeters.
If the plans are set up to print on A1 at 1:100 then you cannot print the same plans on A4 showing the same amount of the drawing at 1:100 you either need to print eight. A4 drawings and stick them together or print the same drawing at 1:800.
But we really do need to see the dwg file to make sure we are talking about the same things.
Nope still no file, you do need to use the web page on the computer where the file is accessible and you should see in your web browser just below where you type your responses an area where you can drag and drop files into the web browser or click on the 'browse' button which opens a dialogue so you can find the file on your computer
OK, the file looks fine, the drawing has been created full size using millimetres which makes life really easy. I added another layout (A4) which shows just the North elevation. The scale bar is a dynamic block which you can alter to show a variety of scales just by highlighting it then click on the visibility arrow and select the scale you want. The viewport scale is set by highlighting the viewport and again click on the arrow that shows in the centre of the viewport and select the 1:100 scale. You will need to fill in the details on the title block (my Swedish isn't up to it 😀).
The title block and scale bars are blocks which you can insert into any new layouts.
Just be careful because although there is an Xref in your drawing it wasn't sent along with your dwg file but the insertion point is a great distance away from your drawing area, and it means when you create a new viewport that your drawing zooms a long way out making it look empty, which might give you a few problems.
1) You need to be in the block editor (BEDIT command) to alter the contents of the block, here's a video that covers the basics of using the block editor.
2) Printing B&W or color is set using the ctb file in the plot options.
3) At the bottom of your screen are the layouts, at the right hand of the layouts is a '+' this adds a new layout A4 by default. The page setup manager lets you make changes.
4) Webinar on viewports and plotting
It would be a good idea to get some formal training on AutoCAD, are there any colleges close to you, a lot will offer evening courses, or most resellers offer introductory courses to get you started with AutoCAD.
Hello Åke,
Your drawing looks fine, in modelspace there is a copy of the North elevation, the only possible problem I see is that your viewport in "Norr alt.2" has zoomed out to the extents of the drawing (I mentioned that before, there is an Xref insertion point a long way from the origin). To get back to seeing just the area of your drawing content then in the active viewport run the 'zoom' command but use the option 'center' and the coordinates 0,0 AutoCAD will then ask for a scale factor use 10,000 which from there you should now see part of your drawing and you can pan and zoom to your elevation. Do you know what this Xref contains? is it important to your drawing or could you just delete it to stop this problem happening?
