topic Re: Paper Space DWG scale in Collaboration with other software

Paper Space DWG scale

Bocko — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:35:46 GMT

Problem: The investor company demands of us to submit the 2D drawings in a specific manner. To complete this, I publish to DWG sets:

1. Paper Space with cropped view's content - this allows me to keep the layout formatting as needed;

2. Model space - I made an addition layout that consists of all the drawings in required order.

The point of this was to cut the time needed to prepare the DWG file for submission. However, regardless of translator settings, the conversion of layouts in paper space always ends with millimeter [mm] lengths. In addition, both Paper space and model space files, are made unitless.

Example: I need model space to be in scale 1:1. Because of the standards, I use [cm] both for working units and dimensioning in ArchiCAD. After publishing, as I try to combine the two above mentioned DWGs, it always ends with scale factor 10x smaller than it should be, since the layout size is always in [mm] (ex. The drawing at the scale of 1:50, should be placed in settings as 1:5)

Question: Is it possible to set up publishing of layouts in paper space to [cm]?

Operating system used: Windows 11

Re: Paper Space DWG scale

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:38:20 GMT

Maybe you are looking for this setting in the DXF-DWG Translation Setup Dialog:

Re: Paper Space DWG scale

Bocko — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 07:01:04 GMT

Unfortunately, no Lazlo. That is the first thing I was trying to change. Regardless of selected units or scale (mostly using Custom [mm] as 10 : drawing scale) the layout always exports in [mm]. Setting the scale affects only drawings in Model space.

To be clear, I have used dozen scale combinations at least.

Re: Paper Space DWG scale

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:32:26 GMT

Can you create Views with 1:1 scale specifically for DWG export, and publish those Views as DWG?

Re: Paper Space DWG scale

bettybetty — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 03:22:14 GMT

Hello，Laszlo.If I create a 1:1 view, do I also need to recreate a set of drawing frames suitable for 1:1 and then re - layout the drawings? The reason is that I want to export a DWG file with a drawing frame.

Re: Paper Space DWG scale

Bocko — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:46:14 GMT

Creating Views for every drawing only for DWG is not an acceptable solution, as I have more than 100 drawings per Project. In addition, it doesn't change the fact that Layouts in AutoCAD are exported in [mm] nevertheless.

Re: Paper Space DWG scale

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:06:37 GMT

You can either

1. Save Views and Publish Views as DWG, or

2. Save Views, then place those Views on Layouts as Drawings and publish Layouts as DWG.

I am saying you should do 1., not 2. No need to place Drawings on Layouts and resize them.

In the Organizer, show Views on the left, show a Publisher Set on the right, and just add the Views to the Publisher Set.