×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

converting survey drawing to correct scale

converting survey drawing to correct scale

converting survey drawing to correct scale

(OP)
Could someone please show me how to coverting the survey drawing to arch drawing scale?
 

RE: converting survey drawing to correct scale

Scale by 12, since Architectural units are inches and survey units are feet.  Assuming imperial system, not metric.

RE: converting survey drawing to correct scale

scale all [enter] 0,0 (* 12.0 1.0) [enter]

RE: converting survey drawing to correct scale

Are you in AutoCad? and if so what is the scale in layout and the units used in model space?

RE: converting survey drawing to correct scale

By the way, if you don't know, paste you drawing in ACAD 2004 or earlier version.  

RE: converting survey drawing to correct scale

The drawing shows it's just as we surmised-you're working in architectural units (inches), survey drawing is in decimal feet.  So either scale up survey by 12 or scale down floor plans by 12 to be able to overlay them.

Missing font files will have to be provided to you by whoever sent you the drawing.  I also found several "nonstandard" fonts in the drawing:

Substituting [simplex.shx] for [University Roman LET].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [solid1.shx].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [helv-ls.shx].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [logo2rca.shx].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [c:\ACAD12\FONTS\a.shx].
Substituting [@extfont2.shx] for [ARCHT].

RE: converting survey drawing to correct scale

If you scale down the Arch. drawing by 12, it's actually 1/12 or 0.083333333333333333333333333333333333333333

RE: converting survey drawing to correct scale

2334 eng- I checked out your drawing and I'll concentrate on the lower right hand drawing of layout "1 SITE PLAN".
First back in model space your barscale is wrong.  Its total length s/b 80'but it shows at 6'8".  So either scale it to 80' or redraw it. If you scale it the scale factor will be 80*12/80 or 12. Then go to the layout mentioned above and highlight the viewport where the barscale is and scale that part of the drawing. Since you show a scale of 1"=20', that scale factor is = 20*12/1=240. Now there are two major thinr to do : 1)invoke the viewport toolbar to select(if available) 1"=20' or to manually input the 240 value and enter the input so as to scale the drawing within that viewport properly or 2) on command line invoke Z>S> 1/240XP and enter to scale that same viewport.
You can verify the accuracy of that scaling by measuring the overall length of the barscale when it is in paper space and model space as 4" and 80' respectively.
Be prepared to see a change in that viewport as you may require it to be increased or decreased in size.
All scaling of drawings in viewport is done exactly that way as long as the drawings in model space have correct dimensions which you barscale did not have.  

RE: converting survey drawing to correct scale

(OP)
CarlB or anyone:
Could you please show me how to do the substituting font missing?
TIA


Missing font files will have to be provided to you by whoever sent you the drawing.  I also found several "nonstandard" fonts in the drawing:

Substituting [simplex.shx] for [University Roman LET].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [solid1.shx].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [helv-ls.shx].
 

RE: converting survey drawing to correct scale

I don't know iif this is what you want but here we go: Open the drawing and select the Format pull down menu, then open Text Style and within that dialog box check out the Font Name box for the font that you desire.
Anotherway to check out for the Font listing, go to window explorer, select the drive (in my case it is C)in which you have program files, then select the ACAD folder and check out the fonts file.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources