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Paper Space DWG scale

Bocko
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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]?

1_ArchiCAD settings.jpg

2_paper space.jpg

3_model space.jpg

   

 

Operating system used: Windows 11

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