Scaling to 1:200

[Konstantinos Mantzanas]

Hello,

 

i have imported some points that are georeferenced.  i have created a design with 1:1 scale, but i want to print it in a scale of 1:200 and when i create a Layout with costum scale of 0.005 my design comes out as extremely small relative to the Layout

 

Any ideas why this is happening?

 

Thank you in advance.

[eldon]

You have not mentioned what units you are using in your drawing.

 

I am guessing that you would be using metre units. The AutoCAD default metric plotting units are millimetres. This means that a scaling of 1000 has to be introduced into the working somewhere.

 

If you have used a custom scale of 0.005 in Layout and your design appears very small, then alter the custom scaling to 0.005 x 1000= 5 and see what that looks like. Another way of getting a scale is to try plotting to fit, and then alter the scaling, that is shown, to be a round number.

 

Otherwise, post your drawing and someone can have a proper look at how it is set up.

[BIGAL]

Another comment if the objects are in metres then 5 would be correct, for mm 0.005.

 

In Autocad turn on the viewports toolbar this has a little box that indicates current scale so we set our title block to true size eg A1 820x570 when measured, then a mview inside that, if you zoom making the objects  say close to fitting the mview, in the box will be a number you should see like 4.678, change to 5, 6.1 change to 5 or 10 and so on. Hope it makes sense.

 

Scales 1000/x 1000/200=5

 

[Konstantinos Mantzanas]

Thank you a lot for your help. i am using meters.

 

I worked it out though.

 

Many thanks.