DWG Editor - Scaling
DWG Editor - Scaling
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First off, I would like to say that I am new to these forums and don't exactly know if this is the most correct place to post this thread.
I know how to scale in almost every other program, but I am having trouble scaling my project in DWG Editor. This is part of SW which I am very knowledgeable in but I can't get it. The situation is that I am actually doing a 2-D floor plan of our plant and going to make two prints. One of these prints will be one of our departments on a D size paper. The rest will be of the machines that will be going in the area, but i need them to be scaled the same as the D size paper. I have been messing around for a day or two now trying to get it and I can't seem to get it right. Is there anyway that it can be like AutoCAD and you can bring up a viewport toolbar and just change it like that or what is the best way of going about this.
Thanks for any help.
tliepke
I know how to scale in almost every other program, but I am having trouble scaling my project in DWG Editor. This is part of SW which I am very knowledgeable in but I can't get it. The situation is that I am actually doing a 2-D floor plan of our plant and going to make two prints. One of these prints will be one of our departments on a D size paper. The rest will be of the machines that will be going in the area, but i need them to be scaled the same as the D size paper. I have been messing around for a day or two now trying to get it and I can't seem to get it right. Is there anyway that it can be like AutoCAD and you can bring up a viewport toolbar and just change it like that or what is the best way of going about this.
Thanks for any help.
tliepke






RE: DWG Editor - Scaling
tliepke
RE: DWG Editor - Scaling
RE: DWG Editor - Scaling
My question to your question is what have you tried so far? All of us old ACADer's would go straight to the scale command. Is this command not working for what you are doing?
Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
RE: DWG Editor - Scaling
But I havent used the straight up scale command because I didnt want to change the drawing. I only want it to be resized in the layout so I can keep the drawing true to size. I've done what DWG help files said and used the zoom command using a scale factor. But that makes it so a 1:1 scale on a D size paper will take up the whole paper and a 1:1 scale on a letter size paper will take up the whole thing. Im not sure if I am looking at it wrong or if I am not doing something right.
tliepke
RE: DWG Editor - Scaling
These steps didn't work?
Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
RE: DWG Editor - Scaling