Drawing Templates/sizing issues?
Drawing Templates/sizing issues?
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Our company has been using SW since '97 but we are just now starting to use the drawing/templates part of SW. We have always did a saveas DWG and did the drawing work in AutoCad. My question is this;
When we start a new drawing in SW using a template we created of one of the title blocks, it comes in 1:1. If you change the scale to 1:2, the model gets smaller giving you the illusion that the border is now bigger. In SW, when you take a distance check, or add a dimension, everything is fine. At the same time, if you check the dimensions of the titleblock, they never change. If you do a saveas DWG and launch it in AutoCad, the titleblock is 1:1 and the model is now half the size.
We have always kept our objects 1 to 1 (full scale) in AutoCad and SW but why is SW backwards and not cross-Cad friendly when it comes to this?
What is a good work around as we will always have a need to tranfer back and forth to and from AutoCad?
Thanks in advance,
When we start a new drawing in SW using a template we created of one of the title blocks, it comes in 1:1. If you change the scale to 1:2, the model gets smaller giving you the illusion that the border is now bigger. In SW, when you take a distance check, or add a dimension, everything is fine. At the same time, if you check the dimensions of the titleblock, they never change. If you do a saveas DWG and launch it in AutoCad, the titleblock is 1:1 and the model is now half the size.
We have always kept our objects 1 to 1 (full scale) in AutoCad and SW but why is SW backwards and not cross-Cad friendly when it comes to this?
What is a good work around as we will always have a need to tranfer back and forth to and from AutoCad?
Thanks in advance,






RE: Drawing Templates/sizing issues?
So you will have to create a series of drawings
Ex. A, B, C, D.. ect..
Hope this makes sense.
Boggs
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Regg
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I use this feature when saving files that will be used on our cnc router table (wood shop). Prior to this feature being added (2001+) the cnc programmer had to scale the files I saved in order to get them back to the right size.
RE: Drawing Templates/sizing issues?
If you actually scaled the title blocks and then printed to the correct size then the model would not be 1:1 on the print even though it was the right proportion. Though it would be 1:1 for the model. It really comes down to what makes sense. Most companies I've worked with don't even want a scale shown on the drawings. They don't want people to be able to take measurements from them. This simplifies worries about scaling errors.
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Boggs
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Christopher Zona
Litens Automotive Partnership
Concord, Ontario, Canada
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Step 2 Right click the drawing sheet and then click properties. Change the scale to 1:1. All drawing views should come in 1:1. If not change the scale of the drawing view to 1:1.
Step 3 Add drawing views
Step 4 Save as .dwg file
Hope this helps
Mike
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BTW: I am not at all unsympathetic with your legacy dilemma. I am painfully aware of the old issues of "draw scale/plot scale" etc. (CV CADDS3 anyone? - yeah, I go back aways.)
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