Dim Scale in engineering

[boofredlay]

Acad 2007

I feel like a goob. It has been so long outside this program that I am stumbling on myself.

Would someone please tell me what the settings for a dim scale in an engineering drawing would need to be if I want it to show text at 1/8" in paperspace at a 1:20 and also a 1:60 scale.

Thanks, :oops:

[lpseifert]

If you mean the height of your dimension text, set it at 0.125 (in the Dimension Style Manager) and your dimscale to 20 (or 60). Make sure the height of the text style you are using for your dimension text is set to 0.

[boofredlay]

That works great.

However my problem is the fact I have to draw my landscape plan on a site plan at "their" scale.
Meaning the drawing is in Decimal Units and the dimensions do not match up. I can strike a dimension over "80" and it shows as 6'-8" How do I get it to show 80'.

I'm not far off from just scaling the entire drawing up by a factor of 12 and being done with it. Let the engineers scale it back down if they need to.

Again, sorry for the confusion.

Eric

[lpseifert]

Have you tried setting your Primary Units (Dimension Style Manager) to decimal?

[boofredlay]

Have you tried setting your Primary Units (Dimension Style Manager) to decimal?

And see, this is the type of thing that just flies out of my mind..

Thank you.

Now is there a way to make it say 80'-0" instead of 80.00?

If not that is ok.

Thanks again.

[lpseifert]

Set the Precision to 0, set your Suffix to '-0"
or...
You could set your Primary Units to Architectural, set your Scale Factor to 12, and the Precision to 0'-0".

(there's more than one way to skin a cat)

[Ronrico19]

You could just make it the size you want then change the dimension text to say whatever you want. (I sometimes do this if something is just a tweak off anyway).

[boofredlay]

Man you guys are awesome... thanks.

Eric

[WagglyFawn]

Why not just go into Dimstyle and set your text height to .125 and then check off "scale dimensions to layout (paperspace)" under the fit tab. Then you won't have to tweak any settings every time you start dimensioning at a new scale.