How do I exaggerate the vertical scale in a profile drawing

[sjr]

I have drawn my subsurface profile at true scale in Model space. I now want to create a layout with a vertical scale of for instance 1"=5 ft and a horizontal scale of 1"= 50 ft, or a 1:10 exaggeration. I have spent countless hours trying to figure this out with maunals and on-line. It seems like such an easy thing to do but I can't seem to figure it out...

 

Thanks for your help.

[CarlB]

You can draw everything with a 10:1 exaggeration. So hold the horizontal scale at 1:1 (draw true scale) and for vertical objects apply the 10:1 scaling. So a 1' diameter pipe is drawn 1' wide and 10' high (an ellipse).

 

Sometimes it may be useful to draw some objects at 1:1 scale; then make a block of it, then insert the block with a 10:1 y to x exaggeration. You can explode this block if you need to, although curves will be reduced to lots of short segments.

[sjr]

Thanks for the reply, and as the administrator pointed out, I did not mentu ion my version of autocad. I am using Auto cad LT, 2006. Is this still posible?

[CarlB]

Yes still possible with LT. All just basic drawing commands to create profile information, then "block" to create block of any linework to be converted from 1:1 to an exaggerated scale, then "insert" and possibly "explode".

[Guest Alan Cullen]

sjr,

 

The easiest way is to create a block WBLOCK and insert it back into the drawing with "x" factor = 1 and "y" factor = 10. It will screw any text you have in the block, so do your profile first, block it, bring it back in, then enhance it.....

 

....all as CarlB suggested...

[sjr]

Thank you so much Alan and CarlB! That worked like a charm.

 

sjr

[Guest Alan Cullen]

Our pleasure.....always here to help.

[joecollettiEIT]

Block method is the way to go ... thanks for the great idea. Before I was going station by station scaling my elevations by 10 or 20 X. The block method is so much quicker and easier. Thanks again!