First, create your drawing at full scale (1:1).
Then set your limits to your paper size at the scale you plan to print it at (34" x 22" for full scale "D" size, 17" x 11" for 2:1 scale, 68" x 44" for 1:2 scale). From the plot menu set your plot area to "Limits", and set the plot scale to your desired scale. The above assumes you wish to plot the entire drawing at once.
Good luck, Steve Smith
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.
I would personally suggest using PAPERSPACE when it comes to Borders and Printing (that's what it's there for!).
1) Draw all your drawings/details at 1:1 in MODELSPACE
2) Go into PAPERSPACE and insert a Paper Border of appropriate size A0, A1 etc, do not scale this, leave it inserted at 1:1. (See below for help creating Borders.)
3) Type MVIEW and draw a viewport covering the blank part of your Paper Border.
4) Type MSPACE to go into MODELSPACE via your new viewport.
5) Type:
Zoom (Return)
1/20XP (Return)
This will zoom the viewport to a 1:20 scale, for a 1:50 you'd type '1/50XP' etc. You can then PAN the drawing around to get the desired look.
6) Type PSPACE and then open up the plot dialog box and set the print scale to 1:1 (since the viewport has already been scaled), set the area to EXTENTS and print it off.
That's it.
**Creating a set of Paper Borders**
Draw your title block in MODELSPACE and draw them at 1:1. So to create an A0 border you would draw a rectangle 1189x841 units (mm), leave an empty border (15mm say) all the way around and then draw your title block within this. Create ATTRIBUTES for your title block text if you are familiar with these (let us know if you need more help with that). Repeat this for all the paper sizes you think you'll need. These will now be ready to be inserted as described in step 2.
I use metric measurements but the same principles apply if you prefer to use imperial units.
