scaling drawings

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 16:21:16 GMT

when we scale the drawing in archicad, all the drawing data will be scaled down expect text & dimensions any help

thanku
pradeep

Re: scaling drawings

TomWaltz — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:43:04 GMT

Are you talking about re-scaling a single drawing element (a viewport) or using the resize command on several elements to re-scale a detail or some other drawing?

Re: scaling drawings

stefan — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:12:29 GMT

You can disable this scaling on the text entities. Select them all and adjust their settings.

But it is not clear what you are trying to achieve.

Re: scaling drawings

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:30:25 GMT

pradeep wrote:
when we scale the drawing in archicad, all the drawing data will be scaled down expect text & dimensions any help

thanku
pradeep

I think you are confusing scale with size.

The scale at which you model your building is irrelevant because walls and doors etc. are entered in real world sizes. The scale only becomes relevant when you wish to place it on a layout or save it as a view.

Because you can save the same view at many different scales, the text and dimension tools (and other labels etc.) are designed to work at true size. That way when you enter 2.5mm as your text size, that's what you get on your plot.

If text and dims were scaled like the drawing then you would have to enter text at 100mm tall for it to be reproduced at 2mm on your 1:50 layout.

If you want to represent the plan (or other view) in more than one scale then use layers to reproduce your text at various sizes. Alternatively, if the text is for an isolated note or specification, place it on the layout sheet instead of on the drawings.

Like Stefan pointed out, you can selct to fix the size of text according to the drawing scale, but it can lead to strange looking drawings if you need a 1:2 detail!

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