grant_PD Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 What is the best way to create and maintain a reduced scale drawing set? Say I have a sheet layer and everything is 24x36 1/4" scale, and I want to have a drawing at 18x24 in 1/8" scale of the same exact drawing? Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I work to an ANSI D sheet size (22x34) which scales to Tabloid (11x17) at 50%. It would be a lot of work to maintain two full drawing sets. If I had to I'd work in a similar way, where the paper sizes were proportional. Kevin 1 Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I work the same way as Kevin, printing a full-size set at 50%. I was very excited when I realized that my trusty old HP LaserJet 5000n could handle 12”x18” paper, so I can print in-house a half-size of a 24”x36” Drawing Set. 1 Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 28 minutes ago, rDesign said: I work the same way as Kevin, printing a full-size set at 50%. I was very excited when I realized that my trusty old HP LaserJet 5000n could handle 12”x18” paper, so I can print in-house a half-size of a 24”x36” Drawing Set. I had some 12" x 18" paper for a while. My old large format HP inkjet would take it too. KM Quote Link to comment
Boh Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 We do a 50% print scale to get a half size set which works really well for us. Have found some minor issues though to be aware of such as hatches not scaling correctly, the drawing labels needing to have a customised scale (rather than just being automated to the viewport scale) and camera match not working well on a PC, though that might have been fixed now. Quote Link to comment
grant_PD Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 so is the method just to export pdfs at 50% reduction from the dialog? Quote Link to comment
Boh Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 We use the sheet layer set up. Go to edit sheet layer>Page Setup>Printer Setup. Quote Link to comment
grant_PD Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 That's how I figured it was being handled. Thanks all for the input. Quote Link to comment
Jim Smith Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 I've worked on this before and I don't see that this technique works as the output's Drawing Label's Scale is not changed. In the past I've had to have a whole duplicate set of Sheets to make this read properly. Any thoughts on the subject? Quote Link to comment
Boh Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) Yes we just do the drawing label scale manually (or just don't include the scale in the label). We have set up the drawing tool with custom scale as the default like this so it covers both A1 & A3. The question mark in the scale indicate it needs to be filled manually. Of course if the vp scale is changed then the label will need to be manually updated but if it isnt it usually comes out in the wash in the pre issue check. Edited February 17, 2020 by Boh Quote Link to comment
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