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[Rod Larmer]

Re posting here as I started this in error under the 2024 Pre-release forum...

I have a project consisting of a plan set of 6 pages. One of the pages are images copied from Windows onto the page and so there is no scale. There are no drawings on this page. I use the "Scale" stamp on my plan template in the title block. When I move the "drawing" of Windows images to my plan set page, it forces a scale which is entered in the stamp of my title block. Support suggests I delete the stamp but then that means it removes the stamp from the other 5 pages. Is there a way around this? ("Not to Scale" is not uncommon so I am surprised that SoftPlan didn't think of this)

 

EDIT: I overwrote the scale in the title block with "NOT TO SCALE" and checked on Mask.

 

Any other solutions out there?

[Mark Petri]

I don't show scale on my title block. I show scale on the individual drawings loaded in the plan set page.

[Bill Wimberley]

I have a title block named Not to Scale. It is a duplicate of the one that has a scale written on it. Any page that is not to scale I can simply edit the page and change out the title block for that page.

Just right click the page name and check the field below Border and select the desired title block.

 

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[Matthew Dunson]

I also have been using stamps more to speed up my title blocks, but I also use the technique of specialty blocks like "Not To Scale" for variation or separate page layouts for details. One solution I think SoftPlan could incorporate is a 'Display Stamp Scale' option when right clicking on a drawing. This will allow the drawing to be enabled or disabled to impact any scale stamps to show or to be automatically titled "Not To Scale". Second solution is for SoftPlan to have a custom stamps option when right clicking on individual plan sets. This will allow the user to browse the current list of stamps and apply "Placeholder" text that overrides the stamp for that individual plan set. When creating new plan sets from that one, all the properties are copied over for easy duplication of the settings. This will allow a user to have a default title block but allow them to adjust the stamps as needed for special cases without modifying the actual block drawing.

[Keith Almond]

Or just an option to display "Not to Scale" instead of the plan scale. Although I did like Rod's option to just mask it out. Hadn't thought about that, as I never put notes on the planset pages.

[Mark Petri]

We just have a note on the title block saying "SCALE: AS SHOWN", then the scale is part of the drawing title. As, often we have details and drawings on the same sheets, there can be more than one scale represented on any given plan set page.