Scaling a Floor Plan

[indigo]

Hi Guys..

 

I had drawn my floor plan using inches units in the insertion scale..I also used the floor pla dimensions indicated in the blueprint...ahmm..for example instead of making a 1,300..length of a rectangle ...I made it ..1.3 in my actual drawing....I thought I could just rescale it if I needed to...my problem is I'm using A1 paper for my drawing and I need to scale it to 1:100 in the layout..when I change the standard scale of my viewport to 1:100 the drawing looks too small on the A1 paper...any thoughts of what might be the problem to I have to change my units...or use the -dwgunitscommand

 

 

Thank you

[ReMark]

In all likelihood while you thought you were drawing in meters you were probably still drawing in millimeters. As others have suggested using -DWGUNITS is the place to start if you want to change from one type of unit to another.

[indigo]

Hi @remark..I'm not sure what the units scale inserted content means..can you please explain it quite further...thanks

[ReMark]

Well that is not what I was referring to but since you asked this is what AutoCAD Help has to say about the subject.

 

INSUNITS (system variable)

 

Specifies a drawing-units value for automatic scaling of blocks, images, or xrefs when inserted or attached to a drawing.

[indigo]

thanks,,should I draw a floor plan next time on the actual size..so for example if the length of the lot is 1300 cm..I should draw it in autocad in 1300 with a unit of centimeters....and then scale the drawing on viewports for example 1:100..sorry for so much question I'm just confused with scaling...thank you

[SLW210]

Yes, draw full size in model space and use paper space viewport to scale the drawing for plotting.

[Ski_Me]

yes you should always draw full size in model space then use your paper space to scale your drawing. Much easier to let AutoCAD do all the thinking for you.

[ReMark]

The last thing you ever want to do is draw "to scale" as one might do manually on a drafting board. Those days are long gone. Follow the above advice.

[rkent]

Hi Guys..

 

I had drawn my floor plan using inches units in the insertion scale..I also used the floor pla dimensions indicated in the blueprint...ahmm..for example instead of making a 1,300..length of a rectangle ...I made it ..1.3 in my actual drawing....I thought I could just rescale it if I needed to...my problem is I'm using A1 paper for my drawing and I need to scale it to 1:100 in the layout..when I change the standard scale of my viewport to 1:100 the drawing looks too small on the A1 paper...any thoughts of what might be the problem to I have to change my units...or use the -dwgunitscommand

 

 

Thank you

 

You are mixing metric units (mm, cm, M) so you can't expect the 1:100 menu pick, which is set for mm, to scale the viewport correctly.1:0.1xp. Adjust for the 1000m/M for the correct scale.

[BIGAL]

Cm's sounds odd normally it would be mm or metres.

[indigo]

Hello everyone..

 

Followed your advice and it worked..really cool..thank you so much guys.