You can easily rescale your drawing using the Land F/X Scale tool. It simply changes the number of "units" in the drawing to match the new scale we're about to set. In our example, changing the number of units in our line will not make the line longer or shorter – as long as we rescale the drawing correctly. you must set viewport display magnification (scale) relative to paper space so viewports Plot at the required drawing scale. you have already set up your A Size Portrait layout to use a Plot scale of 1:1. The standard approach is to Plot layouts at a scale of 1:1.
#Autocad drawing scale settings how to
That's exactly why you need to resize the objects in your drawing when changing the scale. Here is a lesson how to set & Lock Viewport Scale in AutoCAD. So for an object that was originally meant to measure 10 feet, changing your units to inches would then require the object to actually measure 120 units (in this case, 120 inches, or 10 feet). If you did, in fact, change your units, you would eventually need the line to be measured in the number of your new units that match its measurement in the original units. However, the issue of scale forces a new wrinkle into this perfect unitless world. Whether you change your units to inches, meters, millimeters, angstroms, or parsecs, the line will continue to measure 10 units. For example, a line drawn from the coordinates 0,0 to 0,10 in Decimal Feet will be 10 "units" long.