StructCorey Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Hey guys, This is my first post. So I've studied Autocad for 4 years in Highschool, and 2 years in college. I now have 2 years work experience as well. I started a new job in December as a structural designer ( I love it). Here's the thing, though. They don't want me to use paperspace. So what my problem now is HOW DO I WORK OUT MY DIMENSIONS with my scale of drawings. I'd like to be able to draw everything @ 1=1 then make a block of the drawings with dimensions on it and scale it down to say 1/4"= 1' BUT there will be more than one drawing per sheet at different scales, and the text should all be around the same size... I'm not sure how to make this happen using the DIMSTYLE and DIMSCALE commands. Can anyone break this down nice and easy for me? I've attached a Table they'd like me to use. This will help me tremendously as I love this job, and only want to improve and make it a life long career. Thanks a lot for any help anyone can give me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Don't they also have custom dimension styles to go along with their nice chart? Any chance you can bring them kicking and screaming into the 21st century re: paper space layouts? Maybe a demo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StructCorey Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 I've tried. They are older and very set in their ways. I believe they just change their text height & dimscale for each drawing..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Did you ask if there are any custom dimstyles available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StructCorey Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 there aren't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana W Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 I worked for a place like that. They had a dim style for each of their commonly used scales. For instance, for 1/4" = 1'-0" the dim text would have to be 48 times bigger in modelspace than it will appear on paper. They liked the text to be 1/8" high on paper so the text height in the dim style for the 1/4" = 1'-0" scale would be 6". All the dim styles were kept in a template drawing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 there aren't That's sad to hear. Any chance you can attach a copy of one of the drawings to your next post? You can strip out the company name/logo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StructCorey Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 YES! 1/8th" is perfect! So in reality I need to find out what all my text heights would be, and create separate dimstyles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StructCorey Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 That's sad to hear. Any chance you can attach a copy of one of the drawings to your next post? You can strip out the company name/logo. I'll take a look and post one when I get a chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 You might try your hand at creating a custom dimstyle for one of the more populat scales like 1/4 or /18 for starters. Maybe even set up a couple of text styles (preset height-wise) to match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StructCorey Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 Thanks a lot for the suggestions. I'll probably set some dimstyles for each scale, and then change the DIMSCALE according to that chart. Can't wait for all the quirks to be worked out. It's so frustrating when you need to constantly change a million little things to make it work properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Are they opposed to using paper space layouts and viewports because they don't want to deal with annotative scaling things like text and dimensions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Draw the details 1:1 in individual files, then xref and scale them into a plot file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StructCorey Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 Are they opposed to using paper space layouts and viewports because they don't want to deal with annotative scaling things like text and dimensions? Most of them are near retirement, so I guess it seems silly to change things on them at this stage of the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 So let them do it their way and you do it the correct way. Why should they object? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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