Viewing scale

[Steve Jepson]

Why can't I change the viewing scale by clicking on this? Is there a different place to do this?

[Link]

You're in a Master, so the scale is 1 to 1 right?

I guess the question is what do you want to achieve? If you want to change the scale of a drawing placed on a layout using that master, you can set that in the Drawing's Settings.

Cheers,
Link.

[Steve Jepson]

I am trying to make a new master layout. I thought I could just open an old one in PlotMaker 9, copy and paste it into the new one.

It comes in ok, but not at the same scale. Apparently there is now way to change the viewing scale to match the (1/4"=1'-0") stuff I want to paste so this is probably not going to work.

[Link]

I thought I could just open an old one in PlotMaker 9, copy and paste it into the new one. It comes in ok, but not at the same scale

How are you doing this exactly? Are you copying the entire master, or just it's contents?

Regardless, any master it at 1:1 and cannot be scaled. It's a real-world working area, if you will. You can zoom, but not scale.

Cheers,
Link.

[Steve Jepson]

just content. Text, lines, fills, things in my title block. Some of which were objects which I can not get to work even if I open the old 9.pln in 10, and resave it again as a new 10 .gsm.

looks ok in plan view. not ok in layout. all layers on. Actualy, this one is a problem. Why would the object look different?

I tried to make a detail out of the object. It wont work either. However, if I open the detail, I can paste it into the detail right next to it and it will look just fine. Something is not right.

[Steve Jepson]

apparently objects don't work in master layouts. I just used an external drawing.

[TomWaltz]

Steve wrote:
apparently objects don't work in master layouts. I just used an external drawing.

Objects do work in Masters. All my title blocks are objects for AC10.

[TomWaltz]

Steve wrote:
just content. Text, lines, fills, things in my title block. Some of which were objects which I can not get to work even if I open the old 9.pln in 10, and resave it again as a new 10 .gsm.

looks ok in plan view. not ok in layout. all layers on. Actualy, this one is a problem. Why would the object look different?

I tried to make a detail out of the object. It wont work either. However, if I open the detail, I can paste it into the detail right next to it and it will look just fine. Something is not right.

Did you check to see if any of the missing elements are showing in a white pen? (and as such are invisible)

[Anonymous]

Open your master layout and then make all layers visible. That got me once when I first started using 10.

[David Maudlin]

TomWaltz wrote:
Did you check to see if any of the missing elements are showing in a white pen? (and as such are invisible)

Steve:

Also, try zooming in on the object. I have an object with text on the Master Layout that appears mostly blank when the entire page is shown, but the rest of the text shows up when I zoom in on the object. Printing is no problem.

HTH

David