Horizontal and vertical scales for profile grids

[HEADACHEINFL]

Hello, I am working a project that requires me to make a grid with a certain horizontal and vertical scale (profile detail of underground pipes). I have seen some examples but does anyone know of any tutorials for explaining on making one no matter what the scales are required. Thanks any help would be appreciated.

[irneb]

In LT, your only option would be to make a block of the linework (even Vanilla ACad would not have something like this). Then change the scale factors for X & Y to be different to the relative difference between the horizontal/vertical scales. This should "squash" the drawing to suit. To edit the linework, you need to open the block in BEdit. Or you could use XRefs instead of blocks, then alter the XYZ scale factor of those (they're basically the same thing as a block, only updating automatically from the original DWG).

 

The problem with this is usually text & dims. But then you need to draw the text using width-factors so the result looks correct. You may need to have 2 different dim styles (one for horizontal and one for vertical).

[Organic]

I would just draw it manually provided there is not a lot of it to do. A calculator is all you need to calculate the horizontal/vertical scales required.

[irneb]

Another alternative method would be to rotate the view inside the viewport. Something like rotating the VP's usc about the X axis and using the PLAN command. Of course you'd then need to use some trig to figure out by how many degrees to rotate in order to get the correct scale difference. That way you can still draw directly in model space and not have to fiddle with blocks/xrefs.