Scaling a Floor Plan

Hi Guys..

I had drawn my floor plan using inches units in the insertion scale..I also used the floor pla dimensions indicated in the blueprint...ahmm..for example instead of making a 1,300..length of a rectangle ...I made it ..1.3 in my actual drawing....I thought I could just rescale it if I needed to...my problem is I'm using A1 paper for my drawing and I need to scale it to 1:100 in the layout..when I change the standard scale of my viewport to 1:100 the drawing looks too small on the A1 paper...any thoughts of what might be the problem to I have to change my units...or use the -dwgunitscommand

Thank you

In all likelihood while you thought you were drawing in meters you were probably still drawing in millimeters. As others have suggested using -DWGUNITS is the place to start if you want to change from one type of unit to another.

Hi @remark..I'm not sure what the units scale inserted content means..can you please explain it quite further...thanks

Well that is not what I was referring to but since you asked this is what AutoCAD Help has to say about the subject.

INSUNITS (system variable)

Specifies a drawing-units value for automatic scaling of blocks, images, or xrefs when inserted or attached to a drawing.

thanks,,should I draw a floor plan next time on the actual size..so for example if the length of the lot is 1300 cm..I should draw it in autocad in 1300 with a unit of centimeters....and then scale the drawing on viewports for example 1:100..sorry for so much question I'm just confused with scaling...thank you

Yes, draw full size in model space and use paper space viewport to scale the drawing for plotting.

yes you should always draw full size in model space then use your paper space to scale your drawing. Much easier to let AutoCAD do all the thinking for you.

The last thing you ever want to do is draw "to scale" as one might do manually on a drafting board. Those days are long gone. Follow the above advice.

Hi Guys..

 

I had drawn my floor plan using inches units in the insertion scale..I also used the floor pla dimensions indicated in the blueprint...ahmm..for example instead of making a 1,300..length of a rectangle ...I made it ..1.3 in my actual drawing....I thought I could just rescale it if I needed to...my problem is I'm using A1 paper for my drawing and I need to scale it to 1:100 in the layout..when I change the standard scale of my viewport to 1:100 the drawing looks too small on the A1 paper...any thoughts of what might be the problem to I have to change my units...or use the -dwgunitscommand

 

 

Thank you

You are mixing metric units (mm, cm, M) so you can't expect the 1:100 menu pick, which is set for mm, to scale the viewport correctly.1:0.1xp. Adjust for the 1000m/M for the correct scale.

Cm's sounds odd normally it would be mm or metres.

Hello everyone..

Followed your advice and it worked..really cool..thank you so much guys.