Viewport Scale rounding (1"=20')

[edaustinB5YKX]

Autocad LT 2022

I am trying to enter viewport scale for 1"=20' but the "custom scale" rounds to .04.  Same with 1"=10' it rounds to .08.  Any suggestions?

[RobDraw]

Units?

[h_s_walker]

At the command line type UNITS. Change them to either Architectural or Fractional. See the image below. It's just showing you the decimal equivalent of your scale. And .04 is 10" to 20'. 1" to 20' would be .004 as in 1/240 (which is the number of inches in 20')

[edaustinB5YKX]

Model space 1 unit = 1'
Paperspace 11x17 paper, desire 1"=10' or 1"=20'

[pendean]

@edaustinB5YKX modelspace is always 1:1 in AutoCAD
or
1unit:1unit
or
1':1'
or
1":1"

This is not drafting on paper anymore. You need to change your workflows to stop doing that. If you are drawing at any other scale, then you are just creating needless headaches for yourself and literally fighting the program.

How would you like to proceed?

[edaustinB5YKX]

Understood, however the issue I am having is that Autocad is rounding .004166 to .004 and it is not to scale.

[edaustinB5YKX]

Thank you.  I am attempting to draw where a unit is 1'.  In Autocad I want to enter the value 1 and the program is interpreting that as 1" and I want it to interpret it as 1'.  I am guessing I need to set the drawing up as "unitless"?

[steven-g]

Can you post a dwg so we can see what is going on.

[pendean]

@edaustinB5YKX Show your work, share your actual DWG file here.

[h_s_walker]

Change the precision of your UNITS to the maximum allowable. You will see all the extra numbers (decimal places). It's just that your precision is set to 3 decimal places.