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Hello all,

If I have something that was drawn in 1/4" scale and need to convert it to 1/8" scale, how would I go about doing so?

Thank you for the help,

CADwk

Although you're probably aware of this, first of all NOTHING (other than noting and dimensioning) should be drawn at ANY scale - it should be full-size!

If you have created a file that has noting and dimensioning for a final plotted scale of 1/4"=1'-0" you would want to scale the notes and dimensions by a factor of 2. In other words, for any notes that you have that will plot at 1/8" high (6" high) for that 1/4" plot, you'll need them to be 12" high to plot at 1/8" high when they are plotted. Do NOT scale the drawing itself (ie. the walls, doors, etc.) as any dimensioning you do after that will be incorrect.

Does this make sense and help?

To continue what Alan is talking about: the plot scale is set in the Print/Plot menu. This scales the *output* from the full size that you have drawn it down to the plot.

You can save the plot scale as part of each GoTo View (GTV). And if you turn on Text Scale, you then set the size of text (and dims) to what you want it to be on the plot; saving you from having to do the math to size text and dims for various scales.

You can use MultiScale Plotting (MSP), by having the different portions of the drawing set to various plot scales - and you can plot them all on one sheet (or several sheets) of paper at different scales.