Scaling in AutoCAD

[jdorion]

Hello

I am trying to scale my drawing in Autocad 2006. I have tried making my drawing in model space and then scaling for paper space. I have tried scaling paperspace and then making my drawing there. I am not sure what else to try. I have been changing the size of the paperspace box to get as close to the edge of the paper as possible. Is this possibly the reason as to why the scaling is not coming out properly. I have looked under Autocad help and it says to do exactly what I have been doing. Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong because this is driving me crazy.

Thanks for your help in advance

Jessica

 

[TCARPENTER]

Hi Jessica,

Are you scaling your drawing to plot it, or are you doing something else?

Todd

 

[jdorion]

Hello Todd

I am scaling to plot on 11 x 17 paper

Jessica

 

[TCARPENTER]

Hi Jessica,

It sounds as though you are on the right track, you may just be missing a few pieces of the puzzle.

In paper space, you'll basically create the size of paper you will be plotting with, so using the pagesetup command, you'll tell AutoCAD which printer/plotter you'll be using and the size of paper it should output. Once you've done this and closed out your dialog box, create a viewport using the mview command. Just for arguments sake, create your viewport at .25,.25 for the lower left hand corner and 16.5, 10.5 for the upper right hand corner. Once your viewport has been created, type "MS" at the command prompt (no quotes and it's not case sensitive) this will place you "inside" the viewport you just created. Do a zoom extents to center all your line work within the viewport, and then you can start experimenting with different scales in relationship your paper for example, to scale your art work 1/4" = 1'-0", you type "zoom" (again, no quotes and it's not case sensitive), and when the options appear, type 1/48xp and AutoCAD will size your drawing accordingly. To figure your model space units to paper space units, divide your paper space units, by your model space units - in the example above, you divide 12 inches by .25 inches - which will give you 48 - you then use that value as the denominator for your scale info. When you plot, you'll always plot with a scale of 1 to 1.

If you need more detail take a look at this thread where I did a more in depth explanation.

HTH
Todd

 

[CMac01]

I think you are all making this too difficult. Simply draw your project at full scale, 1'=1'in model space. Right click on the layout tab next to model space tab, click on page setup to choose printer and paper size (11x17.) Once this is done create a viewport around the paper space. Double click on the viewport, the properties dialog box should appear and towards the bottom you can choose whatever scale best fits your project in the paper space. This will scale the drawing the exact way all the other junk will, only 10 times quicker. when you want to plot, right click on proper layout tab and choose window. window the exact paper space using the OSNAP, and to the right of window option check the "center the plot" box. You should be good after that. This is how I do it on Arch Desktop 2004!