Finding Drawing scale in Paperspace

K_Lecky1

I have a model of a construction site and I need to print only part of the whole model (foundations of 1 or 2 specific houses).

When I move over to paper space and zoom into the specific part I need to print, to ensure its easily seen/fills the page etc. how can I set it to a specific scale in mm ie. 1:20 so 1 mm on the page is 20mm on the model.

The printed page may need to be scaled off at some stage and that's why I need to be able to do it.

Thanks in advance.

Virgil

Hello.

After positioning the model inside the layout viewport, by using the PSPACE command, the paper space is made active.

Then, select the viewport by clicking on its boundary.

In the Properties panel, in the Misc category, one of the Standard scales can be chosen, in this case 1:20.

K_Lecky1

That is exactly what I was trying to do.

Thank you

ALANH

Like the other post make a layout with your title block at 1:1 ie true size, then dbl click in a Viewport, zoom extents and zoom in closer to an approx scale, pretty picture. Then from pspace can set scale by selecting viewport. The other way if you can remember is when in Mspace, type zoom 10XP this should be 1:100

Ok what seems to be missing in Bricscad is a Viewport toolbar, in Acad this toolbar has a scale display you can type a number in the scale box 10 would be 1:100. Maybe Bricscad will add. I got used to what number to type.

Oh yeah after the scale set remember to lock the viewport.

Lastly can pick point in model space, enter scale then all done. A lisp. Read "set a pretty picture comment".

Last last the scale numbers are like a 1000 different for dwg's in mm v's in metres.

Tom Foster

From v25 VP scale shows in the status bar at the bottom, along with VP lock. Easy enough to set both in the Properties Panel anyway. You choose mm vs m in Settings.

DG_design3

Tom,

I use V18 and I am really having an issue scaling the viewport, I have read several threads and all seem to be in mm etc. I work in Architectural units, e.g. inches feet etc. but when I go to paper space and try to make the viewport 1" = 100', which I have to add to the list, it just won't give me a true scale. I literally have to manipulate the scale. In the current drawing I had to make it .00082 to show it at 100 scale in paper space. I know everything is in units, not inches or mm, so I don't think it is the dimension is the problem, but it also seems this comes up on every drawing that I create from a raster image. I get drawings with a scale bar that is on the image and use the scale command to adjust the drawing to 1"=100'. Of course I draw in 1-1 in model space. Am I missing a crucial step when I set things up? When I receive a drawing that is already in CAD it seems to work fine, only when I have to create a new drawqing and scale the image do I get this odd scale problem

zoomer

I had to look a bit closer to understand what that means ….
1"/100' = 1 inch / 100 feet ⇒ in decimal 0,0254m / 30,48m = 0,0008333333 would be a 1:1200 scale (?) in metric thinking …

And Bricscad does not calculate such imperial inputs or offer common imperial scales ?

OK, I see Bricscad in general does not like fractions,
I currently use and architects think in a "1:50" scale but Bricscad prefers to show it as "0.02" every here and there.
At least for Viewport Scale it offers a 1:XXX format in the dropdown.

And I do not see any imperial scale options here, but could be that I deleted/deactivated everything "imperial" from my File or in Settings.

Tom Foster

I've got imperial scales on my Properties panel dropdown, like 1/128inch /1ft but not 1inch/100ft = 1:1200 (not '100 scale'). So for custom scales like the latter you have to do the arith and type e.g. 0.000833333. Sound like it's working properly!

DG_design3

Thanks Tom,

I am glad you came up with what I did on the scaling, you did the math, I just fit the custom scale until it fit the scale bar on my drawing and was off by a tiny margin. The fact that it is right makes me feel better. I did have that same epiphany with the 1:1200 last night. Again thanks

Anthony Apostolaros

It's true that the default template file for Imperial units doesn't include 1" = 100' in its scale list, but you can add it via the ScaleListEdit command. Then it'll appear in the "Standard scale" pull-down list in the Properties panel whenever a viewport is selected. And you can "Save As" a custom template file with the 100' scale added, so that it's always included in any drawing file started with that template.