joffy Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 i have a garden that I am going to working on, and am busy setting up everything. with regards to drawing limits, what exactly do i enter? the piece of land that i am working on is 140 meters at its longest and 64 meters at its widest. I have always done my drawings by hand and the scale that i usually use is 1:300. How do i go about the setting up of this? Any help will be appreciated joffy Quote
joffy Posted February 17, 2009 Author Posted February 17, 2009 okay, so after reading further through the forum I have come to the conclusion that there is more than one way of doing this, ergo my now very confused state. It seems that quite a few people dont set limits. Thus i think this is what I should do in my case but somehow think i have the wrong end of the stick.... i do not set limits. i design the landscape as it should be. then i "viewport" it (this i do not understand). How then do I plot it so that the design is scaled down correctly to fit onto A3? Is there any mathematical process to determine the correct scale that I need? joffy Quote
Hedgehog Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 Not really (tho' as with everything in the universe there will be a mathematical solution)... draw your A3 sheet in paperspace at 1:1 (420x297) with title block if required... create a viewport within that A3 sheet & the model should appear zoomed to extents... then just scale the viewport (various methods) to a suitable value so it sits correctly in the viewport... plot at 1:1... job done. PS. I have never used Limits Quote
joffy Posted February 17, 2009 Author Posted February 17, 2009 okay... question for you. Whats paperspace? I have the Model and Layout 1 and Layout 2. I assume that the paperspace is one of these two layouts or am i mistaken? and what exasctly is a viewport? sorry for the benign questions, quite new to this and still getting used to the terms Quote
Hedgehog Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 Paperspace only exists in the Layouts tabs (Tilemode = 0) & you are in paperspace when you are not in modelspace in a viewport. Quote
joffy Posted February 17, 2009 Author Posted February 17, 2009 awesome. that makes sense to me now. learnt something new. but whats the difference between layout 1 and layout 2? from what i can see is that they are identical. white background, rectangular dashed line and then a solid rectangle line inside of that. Quote
ReMark Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 What we now call a Layout in AutoCAD was once referred to as Paperspace. That's where we place our titleblock and border as well as all our notes. The default for AutoCAD is to provide the user with two layouts. You do not have to use both. A layout is required for every different size sheet one is going to plot to. If you always plot to one sheet size then you'll have only one layout. Viewports are "windows" in a layout through which we see all the objects we created back in model space. Objects in model space should be drawn full size. It is the viewport that actually has a scale assigned to it. Quote
Hedgehog Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 AutoCAD by default gives you 2 layout tabs... you can add to them, rename them & delete all but one of them (if you delete all of them it will make a new blank one). What this means is that you can split your model into separate areas or include details or views on other sheets pulling information from the same model. /edit ReMark kind of beat me to it... but it is still called papersace... ms puts you into the viewport model, ps puts you into paperspace... & you will require additional layout tabs even if you're plotting to the same size paper if you want to include further detailed sheets.... Quote
joffy Posted February 17, 2009 Author Posted February 17, 2009 draw your A3 sheet in paperspace at 1:1 (420x297) with title block if required... this may seema silly question..... but how do you do that? ^^^ i understand and can create and manipulate viewports now. pretty easy really. Quote
Hedgehog Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 this may seema silly question..... but how do you do that? ^^^ i understand and can create and manipulate viewports now. pretty easy really. Rectang 0,0,0 420,297,0 ... add title block to taste Quote
Hedgehog Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 ... or I think AutoCAD include some drawing sheet templates if you want to insert one of them. Quote
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