Viewport Scale Issue

[ziemerd]

My viewport is set to 1:1 but the drawing is not showing up in that scale. I've set my Page Setup Manager to 11 x 17 paper and my drawing should take up most of the paper since it's a 10.5 x 19 panel but it's not.

 

I just made the viewport so I know I didn't mess anything up by activating the viewport and making changes.

 

I did a CTRL A in model space and I see what looks like an invisible block, most likely my WD_M block I need for AutoCADE and it's way off to the side. Could this be causing the problem? In the past I have found some little something off to the side of the drawing that when deleted it fixes my scale problem.

 

Thanks.

Dawn

[Organic]

Is the drawing drawn at 1:1 in Model Space?

[JBullseye74]

You probably need to scale up your viewport from 1:1

 

Remember Model space draw everything at 1:1 then Paperspace Tabs do your viewport & scales to suit the size of your model. So say a detail viewport may be 1:2 or 1:5 and a plan or elevation say 1:100 or even 1:200.

[ziemerd]

Everything is drawn 1:1 in Model Space.

 

JBullseye74, what do you mean by scaling up my viewport from 1:1? My viewport is already 1:1 which should make what I've drawn in model space too big for the viewport but that's not what's happening.

 

I've included a screen shot of my viewport properties.

[JBullseye74]

There are a number of ways to do this....

 

As displayed in your properties STANDARD SCALE wants changing from 1:1 to say 1:5 keep trying different scales till your model fits into the viewport.

 

OR double click into your viewport and select a scale from your viewport scale dropdown list.

 

The old fashioned way was to click into your viewport type zoom, then scale then say 0.1xp to achieve scale 1:10 or 0.5xp to get 1:2 scale. Its much easier now though don't worry about the last procedure.

[ziemerd]

Thanks JBullseye74. I somehow got it to work. :-)