Scale - 1/8 or 3/8

[griffonwing]

I am doing some CAD drafting, and would like to be able to draft in 1/8 scale. However, I cannot change the grid to .125 inches. I can do .12 or .13, but these throw off the scale of the architectural drawing.

I know Hotdoor's CADtools has their own grid setup, but frankly, it's horrendous. Zooming in the grid gets thicker, zooming out it gets thinner. I like how Adobe's stays the same thickness.

Does anyone know if Adobe will ever allow a more specific grid sizing ability in the future? It would be greatly beneficial for those of us who use Illustrator for drafting or other minute-detailing.

 

[apepp]

...to be honest illustrator does lack for professional drafting, and having said that most professional outfits use the industry standard AutoCAD on PC and i don't think Adobe are in it to be direct competitors with Autodesk, hence CADtools trying to work something into illustrator...



andrew

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[griffonwing]

Yeah. Illustrator has a great capacity for drafting, and is a very powerful program. The main limiting factor is the inability to make a gridline at thousandths of in inch, only hundreds (which limits you to only 1/2, 1/4, 1/10 scale etc, not 1/8 or 3/8).

It would also be nice to be able to have Layer Folders in Illustrator, the same as we do in Photoshop. It would help to group things together.