Manual scale in drawing title?

[matjashka]

Hi all,

I keep receiving drawings in PDF that are already printed to scale. When I attach them to my layouts, the drawing title shows scale as 1:1.
I tried to change scale info manually in the NCS title in v12, to no avail.
The "use original scale" option does not seem to do anything in this case.

Do I have any options? I could create a series of details and size my PDFs to scale and then scale them back in layout but that's really inconvenient.

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

matjashka,

A PDF is not a cad type of drawing, it is an image that has a drawing on it. Equally the PDF could be a photograph of a sunset or a poem.

To get around this, place the PDF on a worksheet first:
1 - start by creating a new worksheet.
2 - Set the scale of the worksheet to the scale you want the NCS12 marker to report.
3 - (Worksheets are located under the Navigator - View Map.)
4 - Save and place the worksheet view to the layout.
5 - Now the NCS-12 marker will report the scale of the worksheet, and incidentally the PDF's articifial scale.

Snap.
PS To double check the "effect": now place the exact same pdf directly onto the same layout sheet without passing through a "save and place view" operation, now look at the NCS-12 marker scale.