Scaling a Sheet

[Anonymous]

I am a high school woodshop teacher that has used Solidworks for years and now I have Autodesk Inventor 2021 at my new job. In Solidworks, I was able to set the scale for the page that I would be working on to a 1:10 so that a cabinet that might be 36" tall could fit onto a 8.5x11 sheet including dimensions that could be printed out for plans out of a regular printer.  Is there anyway of doing this easily? I've watched videos and read other articles on scaling but nothing seems to do what I'm wanting it to do. Thanks

[WCrihfield]

   Are you looking for an iLogic or VBA solution, or are you looking for instructions on how to manually scale the view when you place then within your drawings?

   In Inventor, we don't really scale drawing pages per-say, but instead we scale the views that we put into the drawing.  Usually the basic (front, top, right, etc.) views are all scaled the same, then the isometric view is often independently scaled.  So in scenario where you are automating the creation of a drawing by code, the code would get the bounding box size of the model in model space, and compare that to the available space within the border of your drawing sheet, then do the math to get a ratio (scale) to use when placing views of that model within the bounds of the drawing.

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[Anonymous]

I'm just trying to draw 2d drawings with dimensions of woodworking cabinet projects such as a kitchen cabinet where I can draw the entire project on a 8.5x11 size sheet. (scaled down to fit the page)