Large drawing

[Anonymous]

I want to create a simple drawing- a steel structure 18 feet by 8.5 feet - to represent a trailer frame. then I want to add things such as walls, floors, ceiling etc. All I can seem to get is small, less than a foot scale. The help files aren't much good, I'm greener than grass with cad and the help file seems to think everybody has years of experience.

[davebYYPCU]

By the word drawing, are you meaning a drawing in 2d, for a large format printer, (blueprint) or 

A 3D model of the trailer, with problems for unit measuring?

I use metric, but Fusion uses either Metric or Imperial, and can combine / convert them on the fly.

Set you model space to inches, you may have to convert the feet back to inches.  Best practise is to model in full size.

[jeff_strater]

@Anonymous,

You can certainly create a model that size in 3D.  You can even set the units to feet to help.  I presume that's what you want:  To create a 3D model that is full size, then create scaled drawings of that.  If you can post a bit more clarification about what you are trying to do, much help will be available.

Jeff

[Anonymous]

I would like to create full size - 3D for design, fixture placement, measurements etc. and be able to scale.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

I am wanting to create a drawing in full scale (102 in x 240 in (8 1/2 ft x 20 ft) that I can actually consider accurate and that I can see on the desktop scaled down. So far, it seems if I tell it to make it longer than a couple of inches it's so large it fills the page, if that's really what happened. I can't even tell how big it really is because I can't find anywhere that reflects the dimensions. To me, it seems very simple to be able to say "make a rectangle with these dimensions" and poof, you have a rectangle of those dimensions scaled down to fit on the screen so you can work with it. From there add what is needed in whatever scale it is in order to accurately organize the space.

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

If you have specified the rectangle to be the correct size, you can zoom out or use the "fit" command to see the whole thing.

Screencast:

Jeff