1:1250 Location Plan Woes

[eldon]

That is really strange, because this is what I see with Layout2.

 

Layout1 goes haywire with a custom scale of 0.8, but it is Portrait and you wanted Landscape.

[mifty12]

Just out of interest foes it print to scale as that's where I had most problems.

[ReMark]

And here I thought if someone who is used to working in metric units jumped into help it would be all straightened out in a minute.

 

Could it be a problem with the image itself? Maybe the original scale was out of whack?

[rkent]

You can't set the scale and see MS when you don't have the proper size viewport to begin with. An A4 is ~297X210mm so your viewport in PS should be something slightly smaller that that to start. Now apply the scale of 1000:1250 (or . as mentioned in an early post, this is because the drawing is in Meters and your PS is in mm. Take it from there.

[ReMark]

I think I have it.

 

Note the viewport scale circled at the top.

Note too that this is Layout1 and it is in landscape mode (A4 paper size).

The viewport is on its own layer and assigned the color magenta.

 

Did I achieve the desired results? How say ye? Yea or nay?

[mifty12]

But I thought the viewport could any size?

[mifty12]

I hate to say it but it looks of a similar scale to those i have tried. Have you tried printing to see if it scales off the same as the model ?

 

I really appreciate your efforts on this. Seems like a lot of work for something that should be fairly sime!!

[ReMark]

I did not print it because I work in imperial units and print to imperial sized paper but I have no doubt it will print correctly.

[mifty12]

Would you be able to post it here so that I can take a look or would my personal settings affect the output ?

[ReMark]

Post what where? You mean attach a copy of the drawing?

 

BTW....I did print it after all and it came out very well indeed. The fact that AutoCAD has the print area defined (dashed lines) at least meant it would fit on my 8.5x11 (inches) size paper.

[ReMark]

Here you go. Don't say a yank never done nothin' good for ya.

 

Sorry, but I have to go now. I promised my wife I'd take her to dinner. rkent and eldon can answer any other questions you have. They know way more than I do about metric. Bye.

 

1;1250 Plot A4 ReMark.dwg

[mifty12]

If you could attach the file id really appreciate it. It's encouraging that you have managed to print it out and to scale.

[mifty12]

Thanks again for your efforts. Enjoy your meal

[Dana W]

If you could attach the file id really appreciate it. It's encouraging that you have managed to print it out and to scale.

You both were typing at the same time. You found the file, right?

[mifty12]

Yes got the file and will have a look shortly.

[mifty12]

Just got home and have managed to take a look at the file. Unfortunately when i print it out it is still not to scale. If you look at the line under'El Sub Sta' it measures 22.063 on the model. When printed and scaled off the hard copy drawing it measures 32.330 approximately.

[eldon]

I am surprised that your problem is not yet solved.

 

Did my pictures look anything like you would be expecting? The first one was done in model space without the aid of view ports.

 

I take a slightly different route to a paper copy, in that I plot to a PDF, and then print with Adobe Acrobat with the page scaling set to natural size.

 

Do you have a scale bar that you could add into the drawing to give a proper known line to measure?

[mifty12]

I have tried a couple of routes to printing , the first via exporting to PDF the. Printing from Acrobat, the second by plotting straight from Autocad. I get the same result each time ie out of scale by around 50%.

[eldon]

I think that I can help you, but it is very difficult for me to do so when you are not answering my questions, and doing things in a different way.

 

And for Planning submission, you will need to show a North point and a scale bar.

[eldon]

In your reply #20, you said that when you changed the scale to 0.8 the picture was being magnified.

 

I believe that that happened because you were in a layout that had imperial dimensions, so you need to feed in the conversion factor of 25.4 into the viewport scale. Try setting the viewport custom scale to 0.031496092991 and see what happens.

 

I am afraid that ReMark's drawing would print out at a scale of 1 to 800.

Edited April 14, 2014 by eldon