johnsa Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 I am working with existing base building drawings (I am using AutoCAD 2007LT) and when I set-up the viewports the scale of the viewports is really high (for example 1:4500) on a 24x36 sheet. The building is a large office tower, but the scale I have to use to fit the building on the page seems way too high. I am not sure what I need to do to modify the scale. The drawing units are as follows: Length Type: millimeters Precision: decimal Angle Type: Decimal Degrees Precision: 0.0 Insertion Scale - millimeters Sample Output 1.5000.2.0039.0.0000 3.0000>45.00.0.0000 I am not really sure what I need to change/adjust in order to make the scale something more manageable. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Did you insert the base drawing into a new one? The building was done in metric units. Your sheet size is in imperial units. Could it be a scaling issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnsa Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 Thank you - I just tried inserting it into a new drawing but the same thing happens. I was looking into the Page Setup and noticed that Plot Scale was set to "Fit to paper", when I change it to Scale: 1:1; 1mm = 1 units it corrects the scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 What are the actual dimensions of the building? Is the drawing border actually 609mm x 914mm (24" x 36")? At 1:1000 you should have 609M x 914M. Can you post the .dwg with just the border and a rectangle for the building outline? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnsa Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 I think that the issue was that the plot scale was incorrect. Something I didn't check until now. Now that I changed it to 1:1; 1mm = 1 unit the scale is working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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