Go to Solution. EDIT: It is often times smaller than it should be, not half. Also I could just use the Scale factor command, but it risks inaccuracy and is very tedious, so any solutions would be preferred. Could it be Perhaps you should not have AutoCAD rescale the drawing when changing units.
Maybe the drawing is correctly sized for mm units but is incorrectly reporting that the unit are imperial.
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This is not an official translation and may contain errors and inaccurate translations. For example, if both drawing units and paper units are millimetres and we want to plot at , we should set the paper units to 1 and the drawing units to 2, - simple. But we have a problem because although our paper units are millimetres, our drawing units are metres.
This is true of all Ordnance Survey data and very common for drawings used in landscape architecture. So, we need to factor in the change from millimetres to metres when we create out new scale. Select the viewport by clicking once on the border. You will notice a Viewport Scale button appear near the right-hand end of the status bar.
Clicking this button displays a list of standard scales. At the bottom of the list of scales is the "Custom…" option. Click that option to display the Edit Scale List dialogue box. We need to add a new scale, so click the "Add…" button to display the Add Scale dialogue box.
In the Add Scale dialogue box, enter a Name for the new scale. I've called it ", m " to indicate that this scale is for drawings with drawing units in metres.
Next, enter the Paper units. I have entered "" because there are millimetres in a metre and that effectively deals with the problem.
Finally, enter the Drawing units; in this case "2," because that's the scale we want. Click "OK" and then "OK" again to return to the drawing. Don't forget to save your drawing once it has plotted so that you can easily plot more scaled drawings in the future. Having spent so much time and effort configuring the viewport, it would be tragic if you were to accidentally change the scale or change the position of the drawing. You can avoid this possibility by locking the viewport.
To do this, click once on the viewport border, to display the Quick Properties panel assuming quick proerties is turned on. Set the "Display locked" option to "Yes". This setting can also be made using the right-click menu. Left-click the viewport border to select it and then right-click to display the menu. Sometimes you may not want to plot the viewport border; you may only want to see the contents.
This can be done by turning off the layer that the viewport is drawn on or by turning off plotting in the Layer Properties Manager. When the viewport layer is turned off, the border is not visible but the contents are.
The problem with turning the layer off and hiding the border is that you can no longer select the viewport should you need to make any changes, so turning off plotting is a better option. AutoCAD draws the default viewport of new layouts on the current layer but it is always a good idea to keep your viewports on their own layer so that you can easily control their visibility without affecting the visibility of other objects in your drawing.
Initially, you will see the drawing displayed in Model Space; this is the default environment for drafting but not for plotting. In order to start configuring a scaled plot, we must switch to Paper Space. This button is a toggle and changes to show the current status of the display.
Once the button is clicked, the display will change to show your drawing within a viewport on a virtual sheet of paper and the text on the button changes to "PAPER" to indicate that you are now in paperspace. The next step is to tell AutoCAD how big the sheet of paper is. To do this, click the "Output" tab on the ribbon and then click the "Page Setup Manager" button in the "Plot" panel.
The Page Setup Manager dialogue box will appear, showing a list of page setups. We have the choice of either creating a new layout or modifying the existing default layout. Click the "Modify…" button to display the Page Setup dialogue box. The Page Setup dialogue box looks a bit complicated but in fact you need only make three changes.
First, select a printer name from the drop-down list. Only available printers are listed. Next, select a paper size. Only sizes available on the chosen printer are displayed.
So, you won't see the option of an A1 paper size if you have selected an A3 printer.
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