Site plan

[Farnoush Pourmoradi]

Hi there. Can you please help me with fixing this large site plan on an A3 page for publishing? It's a lot larger than the  A3 layout book.

 

[Barry Kelly]

If you need it at a particular scale, then you have no choice except to choose a larger layout page.

But if you are happy to reduce the scale then you can set a smaller scale in the view settings.

You may have to adjust the text to suit the new scale.

If it is a DXF or DWG file then you can set the translator to the scale you want it to be readable at and then place the site plan with the drawing tool using that translator.

Or (and I don't like to do this personally), place the view as a drawing on the layout and then adjust the scale of the drawing - your text may become unreadable though.

Barry.

[Farnoush Pourmoradi]

Thanks Barry. I typically use a 1:200 scale for my site plans. Is it necessary, such as 1:300, for the site plan? Which approach would be simpler? 😁 

[Barry Kelly]

1:200 is a typical scale for a site plan and this is the scale most authorities will require.

If it is just too large at that scale and you are only building in a small area, then nominate the building area with a rectangle or fill.

Place the site DWG/DXF twice, once at 1:500 scale or 1:1000 scale as a locality plan showing the entire site and this rectangular area - save a view of that.

Then you would still do a 1:200 site plan but cut the excess site off around the rectangular building area and basically treat it as a smaller site - save another view of that.

On your layouts you will show both the locality plan and the cut down site plan views (drawings).

Both should fit on your A3 page (although you may need a page for both depending on their actual size).

Barry.

[Farnoush Pourmoradi]

Thanks Barry. I'll give it a try to see how it goes.