scaling viewports for CAD
scaling viewports for CAD
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I have seen several posts on this topic but none seem to hit the nail on the head. Maybe someone can dumb it up for me. I have a metric drawing and have set up a viewport to plot it.
My sheet is a metric expand A1
My units are meters
I would like to set the viewport scale to 1:400 but if I do that my drawing is just a dot in the viewport. It appears to me that the viewport scales still take into account inches in a foot (the factor of scale of a typical of 1:20 plot). Is there a way to set it all up such that I can put in a unit such as 1:400, plot this guy, and then use my hand scale at 1:400 and read correct dimensions?
Scott
My sheet is a metric expand A1
My units are meters
I would like to set the viewport scale to 1:400 but if I do that my drawing is just a dot in the viewport. It appears to me that the viewport scales still take into account inches in a foot (the factor of scale of a typical of 1:20 plot). Is there a way to set it all up such that I can put in a unit such as 1:400, plot this guy, and then use my hand scale at 1:400 and read correct dimensions?
Scott





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2.5 is a factor of 1000/400
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first I would draw the layout in mm. A2 -> 594/420 units. Then create the viewport -> click into the vp (or "_.mspace") -> type "zoom" -> "2.5xp" (like 1005123), now You have the scale 1:400 -> pan the modell into the right position -> go outside the vp...
HTH, Lothar
ADT 2004
ACAD 2002
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Scott Shipley
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Scott
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