insert a data field indicating the layout print scale

[stefano.s]

Hello everyone, I am a newbie of autocad, as well as completely self-taught

over the years I have learned independently some things about autocad, but they are basically very ignorant.

one thing I never understood is how to manage the viewing scales.

in practice: I would like to be able to ensure that the display scale is automatically printed in the chart, without having to calculate it myself by hand and write it in the cart.

can anyone please give me suggestions, or indicate a page/tutorial to read?

Thank you.
steak

 

[AntonioV]

how to manage display scales

Maybe you mean "print scale." . .

Meanwhile, let's say that the most important difference between a cad and a classic tecnigraph is the following.

In a tecnigraph, the work area is limited by the paper sheet, so you You must have draw in scale.

In a cad, the work area is virtually unlimited, so you You must have draw in natural scale 1:1.

You will say, but the monitor is small, how do I draw in scale 1:1...? ! ?

answer: the monitor is like a camera compared to the design itself. 1:1 drawings, and with the autocad zoom commands you approach or you step away, as if you were using a camera.

when you print, you will tell him:

"ehi autocad, I have a car 4000 mm long, and as I have a plotter a1, print it in scale 1:5"

and therefore he thinks of us to climb everything appropriately on paper.

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[enri]

I would replace the word cad with autocad. :
after years of development still have not understood that perhaps it is the case of changing this absurd system, in vectorwork for example you just have to write the scale as we are accustomed to writing 1: That's it. I don't know the person who figured out at the first hit how to print in autocad scale! It's a perfect system for confusion.

 

[AntonioV]

I don't know the person who figured out at the first hit how to print in autocad scale!

I agree 100%, at first it's really brain.

then it is enough to realize that the autocad print peripherals "ragionano" in mm. and it is therefore to this unit of measurement that it is necessary to relate to printing in model space. . .

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[Tristan]

I would replace the word cad with autocad. :
after years of development still have not understood that perhaps it is the case of changing this absurd system, in vectorwork for example you just have to write the scale as we are accustomed to writing 1: That's it. I don't know the person who figured out at the first hit how to print in autocad scale! It's a perfect system for confusion.

I agree fully! still today there is a lot of chaos linked to this topic. but only to raise a sterile and free controversy, otherwise I would not be:biggrin: : How come these intellicad genes, so good to copy, have never even solved the problem? It would be a big point to their advantage... I always reveal to my instructor my trick tied to the annotation/print scales (version 2008 and above) and it seems to me that they go happy and satisfied.

 

[stefano.s]

Meanwhile thank you for the answers.

rightly, print scale.

I usually edit drawings of others by adding my objects. Sometimes I also create ex-novo, nothing changes.
Sometimes the measurements are in meters, others in centimeters, others in millimeters.

wandering in autocad I found that there are two points where I can set a ladder.

1: layout mode - window - properties
2: Page settings management in layout

usually imposed the affected reduction scale (type "1:100") at the window property level in the layout in paper space, and leave the second in 1:1
only that then (correctly) when in the cartiglio I fall to insert a field "print scale", I appear "1:1"

I don't know how to get out. .

My problem, re-epiloating, is not: print in scale, but automatically make the print scale appear on the printed sheet!

 

[Tristan]

Meanwhile thank you for the answers.

rightly, print scale.

I usually edit drawings of others by adding my objects. Sometimes I also create ex-novo, nothing changes.
Sometimes the measurements are in meters, others in centimeters, others in millimeters.

wandering in autocad I found that there are two points where I can set a ladder.

1: layout mode - window - properties
2: Page settings management in layout

usually imposed the affected reduction scale (type "1:100") at the window property level in the layout in paper space, and leave the second in 1:1
only that then (correctly) when in the cartiglio I fall to insert a field "print scale", I appear "1:1"

I don't know how to get out. .

My problem, re-epiloating, is not: print in scale, but automatically make the print scale appear on the printed sheet!

When you talk about field you mean data field? If so then you wrong to select the object from which to read the scale...or I did not understand the problem

 

[AntonioV]

I don't understand the problem

stefano.s wants me to say "scala 1 :xxxxx" is automatically inserted in the cartilage, where the factor "xxxxx" is taken automatic from the print window.

This is a great question here, but in my memory, in the options of the _field command there is nothing like this (I hope that master tristan will deny me).

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[stefano.s]

stefano.s wants me to say "scala 1 :xxxxx" is automatically inserted in the cartilage, where the factor "xxxxx" is taken automatic from the print window.

This is a great question here, but in my memory, in the options of the _field command there is nothing like this (I hope that master tristan will deny me).

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of course if all this is possible... in any case there is definitely something that I did not understand about the print scale

 

[Tristan]

stefano.s wants me to say "scala 1 :xxxxx" is automatically inserted in the cartilage, where the factor "xxxxx" is taken automatic from the print window.

This is a great question here, but in my memory, in the options of the _field command there is nothing like this (I hope that master tristan will deny me).

exists:
tomorrow audience on the blog... now I have the course of revit waiting for me:smile:
Stay tuned!

 

[PlannerRoad]

uses utility gestional di May:
http://www.cad3d.it/forum1/showthread.php?t=18852simplifies the use of layouts and creates a field with the layout print scale indicated.

 

[AntonioV]

uses utility gestional

Thank you, I confirm once again that I have some vintages to read me, in this forum.. .
@ sadanIf the _field variable to which you all work also in model space, I will owe you natural life during. . .

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[GP.]

@ sadanIf the _field variable to which you all work also in model space, I will owe you natural life during. . .

It acts, however, that tristan does not like herrings. :biggrin:

 

[PlannerRoad]

Thank you, I confirm once again that I have some vintages to read me, in this forum.. .

Unfortunately, the search for the forum recently doesn't work, the administrator has yet to remedy it, and some forum links must go to find them with the advanced google search function. :frown:

 

[AntonioV]

It acts, however, that tristan does not like herrings. :biggrin:

Right, but as I know you like it, tell me now, otherwise I won't sleep tonight, without even a night nba game keeping me company. . .

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[GP.]

Tell me now, otherwise I won't sleep tonight. . .

But I already told you, it acts.
you should use stairs by name.

:smile:

 

[AntonioV]

you should use stairs with name

It works great, but not with "name scale" well so:

I discovered two interesting aspects:

1] if inserted in a cartilage block, the field does not automatically rise to the variation of the plating scale factor, unless the block itself explodes

2] instead, if inserted as attribute of the cartilage block, it updates in real time, after obviously a _regen

thanks again to exist, to both (altoatesino&padano). . .

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[Tristan]

come promesso:
http://ctrl-alt-cad.blogspot.com/2011/01/come-vi-catturo-la-scala-delle-viste.html:biggrin: