Hi, please see the attached photo. The drawing is set to a scale of 1"=80'. However, the scale bar shows trailing zeroes, regardless of what I tweak. This is the only page in this drawing that does this, others show scales fine (note, the other pages are not 1"=80'). I have tried changing the "Autocad Map 3d Scale," shown as 1:960.002, to 1:960 to no avail. The trailing zeroes add themselves. I have tried changing the scale ratio, it doesn't affect the scale bar, even when set to 1:960. The same issue occurs if i set the unit precision to 0. I would manually make this 40 and 80', but this is a template and it's highly impractical to not use the automatic scaling feature.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Fractional Scale Bar Issues
Hello @zdpNSEng
Here's an example:
Viewport scale 1" = 80'
So the scale bar division = 80 '
Length of the scale bar in image-1 equals 2 inches.
The paperspace units are always inches. NO EXCEPTIONS!
(Unless you use a metric template then it's always millimeters.)
The SCALE RATIO is one paperspace unit = How many ?? modelspace units
(Paperspace is always 'one inch' and modelspace udrawing units are 'feet.')
Chicagolooper
Thanks for the reply. I understand how scaling works, what I'm trying to figure out is why the scale bar in this instance shows trailing zeroes when the scale ratio shown in "scale bar properties" is a whole number, and when the viewport scale is also a whole number.
You have a miniscule discrepancy in your VP. It's not really what you think it is, if it were, then you wouldn't see those trailing decimals.
Have you FORCED your viewport to be 1:80?
Try this:
- Unlock you viewport, don't pan and don't zoom.
- On command line 'Z'=>Enter
- Again, on command line '1/80XP'=>Enter
- Make a new scale bar.
Chicagolooper
