print in the right size

[peppedp]

save and apologize not only if the question appears to you, of the sector, absolutely banal, but even if it has already been made similarly by someone else.
So, as you understand, I'm not a craft, but I have to use a cad software to draw the orders of a kayak to build in wood. I designed the ordered ones with drawsight (which is free), creating a polylinea and using as an inch measuring unit. Now I'm trying to figure out how to print the drawing in the right size. If I want, that is, that the scale of the drawing has as reference the maximum height of the central point of the order, equal to 8 inches, how do I print a drawing that has that date dimension?
Sorry if you don't understand anything.. .

 

[Paolo Molniya]

the standard scales are those with 1, 2 or 5 then 1:1, 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, 1:20 ect, you have to print the drawing on a sheet a4? if you, you should know the length of the kayak and choose a suitable scale

 

[peppedp]

Hello and thank you for the answer.
I have to print on sheets a3, because the orders are large enough. I have the exact size of each order and have to cut them out from the sheets on which the mold, in order to be able to paste them on the sheets of plywood from which to cut out the shapes... measures must be very precise, as I put them in when I created polylinea. when I gave the coordinates of all points of polylinea, these were according to the correct measures, 1:1, but expressed in inches. So? Don't I have to remake the drawing with the sizes in mm?

 

[Paolo Molniya]

ah ok, well if you draw in 1:1 when you go to print check that the real scale is correct, (I don't know drawsight but if it's like autocad there should be a "ltscale" command...). However, Odd :smile:, if you put the measurements in in inches, check that in print options are inches, you don't need to convert everything to millimeters.

I hope to help you:

 

[peppedp]

Thank you very much, Paolo!