Automatically displaying drawing scales for alternative layout sheet sizes

[Paul King]

We do most of our layouts using A1 sized sheets, but for day to day use (in-house checking, discussions etc), these are typically printed off in A3 hardcopy size.

We have been manually typing the A3 equivalent drawing scales to the A1 drawing scales in our title blocks - but this requires the user to know in advance or keep coming back to manually check all the drawings at different scales that will ever be placed on that layout.

It should be a very simple process to automate this - for A1 printed out at A3 size, you just take the figure from autotext result for the <drawingscale> property and double it.

How do people automate their drawing scale figures in layout title blocks to include the drawing scales applying when printing our at other sheet sizes?

Surely this has been successfully addressed somewhere by now?

Without exception, all practices I freelance to have this requirement, so have some confidence that this is not an 'edge case' that GS can safely ignore.

Operating system used: Windows 11 25 H2

[Lingwisyer]

Can AC_LayoutRect be used outside of title objects? I cannot find anything about that parameter... I can only find it under the Title subtype and AC won't let you read or add it to a generic object... I could possibly convert my symbol to a title, which should technically work.

ps. edittable hotspots do not seem to work in title objects...