I don't geddit ptII

Hi everyone

I'm attempting to do a Vectorworks tutorial in AutoCAD but I'm still unsure how to make that transition.

In the Vectorworks video tutorials the instructor first sets up the page size (Drawing Area [A3]) via the ‘Printer Setup’ then he scales the drawing to paper at a scale of 1:15 & sets the Units to ‘mm’.

How would I implement this pre-defined Vectorworks setup in AutoCAD’s ‘Model Space’ or ‘Paper Space’?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

PS.

I know I’ve already received some great advice on M/P Space (please see here: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?38578-Model-Paper-Space-I-still-don-t-Geddit) but trying to envisage this in a practical sense would, I think, help me understand the transition better.

PPS.

I hope I'm not exasperating anyone by my incessant attempts to try & understand AutoCAD's drawing functionality.

Thanks again

You draw your objects in model space at FULL scale. It doesn't matter if they are the size of a paperclip or a Boeing 777 Dreamliner.

After doing so switch to your paper space layout (Layout1 tab). Use the Page Setup Manager to choose your printer/plotter and page size.

Create a layer for your viewports. Make this layer non-printable. Viewports are "windows" that allow us to look back into model space to see what we have created.

Create a viewport (or more than one) using the MView command. You can have a max of 64 active viewports.

It is the viewport that a scale is assigned to and not the objects back in model space. There are at least four different ways to assign a scale to a viewport. How many are you aware of?

Text and dimensions can be included in model space but to get the most functionality out of them you should learn to use "annotative scaling". Are you familiar with this feature?

 

It is the viewport that a scale is assigned to and not the objects back in model space. There are at least four different ways to assign a scale to a viewport. How many are you aware of?

 

Just don't use the SCALE command and "scale" the viewport itself, you want to scale the viewport view or zoom factor.