Scaling viewport

[Caesium]

Hi all,

After some amazing help from ReMark last time I'm back for another bit of help

 

I have purchased two plans from an online mapping service for my planning department to show the location of my property boundary and they came with a scale bar within the drawing.

 

When I try to set the scale to 1/1250 in an A2 paperspace the drawing becomes a speck and impossible to see.

 

I want to get two maps at two different scales on the same paperspace, can anyone advise how to do this and still be able to view it?

 

I need to set the site plan to 1:200 or 1:500 and the location plan to 1:1250 or 1:2500

 

Files attached so you can see what I am on about.

 

I still cannot get the hang of this scaling thing

27 Croasdaile Site Plan 1_500.dwg

27 Croasdaile Location Plan 1_1250.dwg

[eldon]

You must remember that there are 1000 mm in 1 metre. AutoCAD plots in millimetres, but the maps are in metre units.

 

Therefore for the 1 to 500 scaled drawing, the viewport custom scale is 1000/500. (You can just enter it like that, you do not have to reduce the fraction to 2.)

 

For the 1 to 1250 scaled drawing, the viewport custom scale is 1000/1250.

[Caesium]

Perfect, that explains it.

 

Thank you ever so much.

[BIGAL]

A helfull short cut turn on the Viewports toolbar, make a vport in paperspace etc at true size 1:1 in mm jump into this view port just roughly scale the dwg, you will see in the toobar a number will appear, like eldon thats the 1000 ratio so for 1:500 just type 2 and the viewport will auto scale to 1:500 4=250 etc use it everyday.