topic Dimensions with forced scale in Documentation

Dimensions with forced scale

Finlay_Moran — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:36:31 GMT

Hello everyone!

I don't know hot to describe my problem properly.

There's nice feature in AutoCAD where you can create new style of dimensions that can calculate size based upon certain scale.

For example, I made a working sheet with a section of a pipe. In plan view pipe is quite squigly but I need to create squeezed version of the pipe to exagerate it's slopes.

For example the scale of Y axis is 1:5 and the X axis is 1:40. The drawing itself is already done. But I can't use proper dimensioning because it calculates lengh based upon so to speak global scale of the working sheet. In AutoCAD it's a straight process of creating specialized style of annotation.

The only solution i came up with is to routinely change calculated dimensions with straight up typing.

Is there a way to solve this besides exporting it into AutoCAD?

Operating system used: Windows 10

Re: Dimensions with forced scale

CosminF — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:40:54 GMT

In working with engineers I noticed their tendency to use different scales on drawings. E: a perfect square drawing might have one axis dimension written as 10 and the other is 765. Visually, the proportions are not correct but I understand where you are coming from.

as far as I know, Archicad can only use “real” dimensions (of the drawn element, drawn to scale) or you have to manually input your desired value on each dimension line - as an override of sorts.

Re: Dimensions with forced scale

Finlay_Moran — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 22:09:59 GMT

For the moment I decided that it would be easier to create custom gdl linear dimension object that will calculate accordingly. It's a basic 2d shape so I guess it can solve the problem