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#Scale autocad drawing full#

If the machine shop can't handle the larger prints then they shouldn't accept the job. I believe, and was taught, that fewer large sheets are preferabl to lots of small sheets. A colleague & I redrew it on E as I recall on a single sheet, that was a lot clearer.

I've seen I think it was 5 or 6 sheet B size drawing that looked like a bowl of spaggeti or a spiders web, so many lines. While occasionally unavoidable I think having the same view several times doesn't seem like good practice and going by some of the drawings I've seen it on it's almost always difficult to understand. If you try to do it on a B you end up with 2 or more of the same view, each on different sheets, to fit all the dimensions. They have so many dimensions that it becomes an incoherent mess. To draw them on B or even C is virtually impractical. RE: standard drawing scales KENAT (Mechanical)ītrue, we have some parts that are fairly complex. And if I ever catch some old fossil using a scale on my paper CAD drawing, with those notes above added, he and I will have a discussion. I agree, a crapped-up drawing is a crapped up drawing, but the scale doesn't matter for that.

Who cares, as long as the scale relationships between views is maintained.

Then I put a note on the drawing "DO NOT SCALE FROM PRINT". And if not, I put detail views on sheet #2, in whatever scale the CAD system says they are in, but re-lable the scale as "2X" or whatever. A whacked-out scale may be just what is needed to make certain features stand out. "Who cares about your 1/1 model? It doesn't do much for a crammed up (or maybe I should use 2p's) B size draft file." A cluttered print is a cluttered print, and adding sheets is not a no-no in your system, is it? I tend to avoid huge sheet sizes, because many shops will print them or photocopy them to reduced sizes (A or B), and everything then becomes un-readable, regardless of how artistically I placed my views and callouts.

Multiply the feet by 12."My main concern isn't so much that they are using weird scales, though I think it's bad practice, but that they are doing this to cram information onto a B size sheet rather than use a larger drawing."įine, so tell them so.

To convert an engineering drawing scale to a scale factor:

Invert the fraction and multiply by 12.

To convert an architectural drawing scale to a scale factor: Said a different way by Autodesk, "You can change the view scale of the viewport by using the XP option of the ZOOM command when model space is accessed from within a layout viewport." Calculating Scale Factor For instance, you would be in paper space on a sheet, then you would enter model space within the viewport, then you would type Z or Zoom and enter 96xp to scale the drawing to 1/8" = 1'-0" in paper space. The suffix is AutoCAD nomenclature for changing the scale within a viewport. You will notice that the Viewport Scale in the charts below indicate a scale with the suffix XP. However, since these drawings get placed on sheets of paper that are much smaller, a scale factor is required so that the final drawing has a usable conversion factor. For instance, when drawing a door in CAD, the door would be 3 feet wide and 7 feet tall.

#Scale autocad drawing full#

For simplicity and clarity, CAD users draw buildings at full scale.