Working with mm - Problems with scale in paper space (layouts)

[jhwang39]

Thank you guys for all your help.

It seems like ReMark is right on target with the DWT file. My school provides us with templates and titleblocks to use, and I didn't realize the one I've used for the past month is specifically for English units, and that another template exists for metric units. I've copied and pasted everything over and rescaled to make things the right size.

Thanks again for all the help!

[ReMark]

One would think that a school like yours would make sure their students know that there are two different types of templates and to make sure the correct one is used. It is often the little things that trip us up.

Glad to hear you got it squared away.

[samchums26]

First check your units if it is in millimeters. Go to the layout tab, draw a rectangle with the size 215.9mm x 279.4mm then offset 12mm inside the rectangle or check the printable area of your printer to determine the size of your border block. Type MVIEW then window the inner rectangle this will be your viewport. Double click inside the viewport, type zoom then enter then type e(for extents) then enter (your drawing will be on the center of the viewport).

FOR THE SCALE:

1:25 - type zoom then enter then type s(for scale), type .04xp then enter.

Double-click on the outside of the inner rectangle to be back in the paper space.

FOR PAGE SETUP:

Right-click on the layout tab, pagesetup, select printer select the paper size. As for the above rectangle dimensions you need to choose 8.5x11" portrait paper size. Go to plot area and select window. Window the 215.9x279.4mm rectangle, this will be your paper size.

Check the "center the plot", uncheck the "fit to paper", Go to scale and choose " 1:1" and under the scale bar change to 1mm=1 unit.

For the drawing orientation and plot style, just change it according to your desire settings.

NOTE:

For the above scale, it should be applied in a millimeter drawing settings only.



Hope this one helps...goodluck