Scaling

[sceejays]

Hi guys i was wandering if anyone could help me i am using autocad 2009 and due to the local council a drawing of a floor area i did for them (with all the measurments on it) they have now told me i have to scale it to 1:100 or something like that as an example the area i am looking to scale down is approx 14 meters x 5 meters but i need to print it of to A1 can anyone please help me with this

 

Many thanks in advace

 

Sceejays

[BigMikeLV]

What are you looking to do? Just rescale the text? just use annotation scale for that. Then scale the window to the desired scale....

[Strix]

how have you done the drawing, and how's it printed?

 

what scale do you have it at now?

[sceejays]

i just done the floor plan 1:1 in cad put the measurments on printed on A1 and sent it to the council now they say they want the drawing scaled to 1:100 for example so they can check it ?

[BigMikeLV]

so you printed a NTS drawing with dimensions? the setup a Layout paper size of A1 and then scale you viewport accordingly.

[sceejays]

floor plan 22 heath street.dwg

 

this is the drawing i need to print out to scale

[BigMikeLV]

forgot this was metric... lol

[BigMikeLV]

I had to saveas 2004 for file size issues... it should be what you need. 1=20 paper ISO A1

floor plan 22 heath street.dwg

[Strix]

sorry - I don't have AutoCAD on this machine

 

so you've got everything in modelspace?

 

you need to go to paperspace and add a viewport, then then tell that viewport you want it to be 1:100

[Strix]

... or you can print to scale too - so just send your drawing to the printer but instead of 'scale to fit' you need to tell it to be 1:100