printing to scale

[leo55]

Hi,

I am having trouble plotting to scale, I have a large drawing which is set up in metres so I understand I need to scale up the figure by multiplying by 1000 but the problem is: I set up my paper at A1 and then zoom and adjust to an acceptable scale which turns out to be 1:850 by typing in .85xp, once drawing is printed to scale it is not 1:850 but 1:1185 approx, the thing is using the exact same method if I scale to 1:1 equivalent to 1:1000 the drawing IS to scale. Using design jet 500 and Autocad LT 2011.

Any one have any ideas?

Thanks

[rkent]

Use 1/850xp.

[leo55]

Hi,

If I do that the drawing in paper space becomes a dot, remember the drawing is set up for metres.

thanks

[eldon]

What happens if you use 1000/850xp?

[Glen1980]

Is the UNITS dialogue box set to metres?

[deres]

Go to your layout tab, double click in your viewport and type:

 

z (enter)

sc (enter)

1000/850xp (where 850 is your scale) (enter)

 

double click out

[BIGAL]

Title block about 800x560 units in size, not .8x.56 in layout tab, plot at scale of 1:1 not "FIT" this would cause weird rescale, viewport at scale of 1:850 should work, by the way 850 is not a recognised scale we would use 1:1000. or mark plan as NTS not to scale.

[leo55]

First of all, thanks so much to all of you for your help.

I had read in a tutorial that to scale a dwg which is set up in metres I should multiply the scale x 1000 when in fact I had to divide eg. 1000 div by 1200 = .83, when using

the scale factor .83xp I then get correct scaling. This is a very large site dwg and fits well in A1 at 1:1200.

Thanks again for your help.

[BIGAL]

A quick tip if you have the viewports toolbar open when you make a viewport if you go into it and zoom E you will see a number appear on the right side where the scales appear as in your case it would be approx 0.83 , this tells me that I should use 1.0 1000/1000 if say I get 4.375 I would type in 5 this is 1000/5 = 1:200 10 = 1:100 hope this makes sense it will zoom automatically to the scale. In metric it is very easy.

[leo55]

A quick tip if you have the viewports toolbar open when you make a viewport if you go into it and zoom E you will see a number appear on the right side where the scales appear as in your case it would be approx 0.83 , this tells me that I should use 1.0 1000/1000 if say I get 4.375 I would type in 5 this is 1000/5 = 1:200 10 = 1:100 hope this makes sense it will zoom automatically to the scale. In metric it is very easy.

 

Man, you work late (early)!!! 2am!.

 

That's a great tip, I hadn't noticed that!. It would've saved me a lot of trial and

error zooming to get the right scale, that's a beauty.

Thanks heaps.

[BIGAL]

Nah its lunch time ! in AUS

 

Its 6:52 PM right now