!Restored: Drawing Scale calls for GDL

[Anonymous]

Is there a variable other than GLOBAL_SCALE that can make the transition from model to layout environments. I want to have a display of the scale factor of a drawing but when I take the code into layout, the value returned is 1 (corresponding to the 1:1 layout environment). How do you store/reference the original drawing scale? And I don't want to do it with autotext...I want a numeric return.

[Anonymous]

Tom,
Would a title type serve your purpose ?
I believe some title types access and display the
original scale of the window the drawing was created from.
Peter Devlin

[TomWaltz]

Do you mean you want an object in the layout to refer to the scale of a drawing?

I think Peter is correct, the only option I know of is to use Title Type.

[Anonymous]

I am creating a graphic scale within a title type and want to have the numeric feet appear beside the tick marks on the graphic scale. So, somehow I need to be able to get the scale of the drawing as a number that I then can manipulate to serve the graphic scale. (PS: I don't like the NCS objects graphically, thus the GDL effort). Global_scale variable references the window its in, so it works in AC model but in layout reverts to 1:1. There's got to be an original drawing scale factor variable (not autotext) somewhere to be able to use!

[Anonymous]

I agree, as you say, "There's got to be an
original drawing scale factor variable" or
I assume there must be.
I have not taken the time to slog through
one of the title type scripts to find it.
I would have to memorize all those
gs_this and ac_that so that I could recognize
the variable when I saw it.
Assuming it is a global, request, or function call.
Peter Devlin

[TomWaltz]

I think AC_DrawingScale is what you're looking for. I think it's a text variabel though, not a numeric one.

[owen]

Yes there are global variables available now which will return values such as the drawing scale. It cannot be done with Autotext - autotext does not work in GDL as it is something AC itself converts after the GDL is run. Can't remember the complete explanation but do a search on TitleType or similar .... i posted a Titletype object which has functions in the script you could use, and the thread it is in talks about this stuff. Sorry too busy right now to find it myself

[David Larrew]

I just went through this exercise...

Unfortunately, there isn't a "scale factor" (real number) variable available. You will need to do some GDL scripting to convert the "AC_DrawingScale" (string) variable to the scale factor (real number) variable.

[owen]

David wrote:
I just went through this exercise...

Unfortunately, there isn't a "scale factor" (real number) variable available. You will need to do some GDL scripting to convert the "AC_DrawingScale" (string) variable to the scale factor (real number) variable.

oops forgot about the string conversion .. i hadn't had the need to use it as a real number yet so had not reached that hurdle. Thanks for the heads up.