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Good afternoon,

I'm very new to AutoCAD and need help

I have a PDF building plan I need to get a handful of viewports off of.

 

The issue I've been running into is getting the scale of the viewport to be right. I imported the PDF as 1:1 scale and changed page dimensions to correct one and the scale to 1/16:1' in page setup which matches the drawing scale. I did verify with the distance tool this is scaled correct and measure distances that match the noted ones.

 

I move over to layout, change page setup to match the same 1/16-1' scale. Then when I make a viewport and change that to the same scale the drawing looks like a speck.

 

What am I doing wrong? I've watched about every YouTube video I can find

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The way I would approach it is make the pdf true size when you compare a long dimension in the pdf ie just import at any old scale then rescale the pdf . So your pdf now matches what a true dwg would look like. Then make your layout with your title block at true size again say the title block is 36x24 when measured, then make a viewport and zoom approx. on object then set viewport scale to what you want. Lock viewport when happy.

 

I really would suggest always have your layout title block at its true 1:1 size eg 36x24 24x17 17x11 and so on, use viewports for scaling.

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