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#1 Kerry Calvert

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Posted 29 March 2020 - 12:17 PM

I am looking for a place where with one simple adjustment a drawing scale could be changed?

 

Regardless of the scale of the drawing(s) I want all common components (arrows, text, line scales, etc.) to display and plot at the same visual size.

 

For example if a detail drawing is created with all its drawing components (arrows, text, line scales, etc.) intended to be displayed at 1/4"=1'-0" but you decide, after it's completed, that it would be better if it was scaled at 3/8"=1'-0"   With a simple change of a scaling factor from a 1.0 -> 1.5 or 1.0 -> 0.667 all drawing components would automatically adjust to the new scale.

 

I create detail pages with many different scale drawings on them where all drawing components look consistent. 

 

Currently I have created a template drawing at each of the scales that I may use in a set of drawings but it is somewhat time consuming merging the drawing on to the various template sheets to see what the drawing would look like at a different scale.  



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Posted 29 March 2020 - 12:38 PM

There used to be a feature called AUTO SCALE that did just that. However, I could never make it work satisfactorily.


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#3 Kerry Calvert

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Posted 29 March 2020 - 01:08 PM

Thanks for your input Kieth,

 

I think what you might be referring to is within Multi-drawings for when drawings are brought together as a multi-drawing, I may be wrong!   

 

What I'm looking for needs to happen right at the drawing level.






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