Topic: Zoom Scale factor

[CADaver]

You don't have anough room for dual flat screens??

Nope, not enough room in the budget either.

That's gotta be one SMALL desk..

As a design lead, I get 2- 30"X60" tables in a corner (everyone else gets one), one for the computer the other for the 300,000 pounds of paperwork involved in running a bleeding job.  Half the time I have to put my coffee cup on the floor with the rest of my reference material.

and here I thought everything was BIG in Texas.. heheh..

5 years ago we had a lot of room to spread out, but then we had less money to invest.  Now we have plenty of money, but no room.  We have two guys sitting at tables setup in the drawing vault.  We took in half the front lobby and added space for two more engineers.  We even have several guys scattered out in 3 conference rooms.  When we need those for meeting, the guys have to figure out who's in the meeting and go use their machines.  Even with all these new guys, we're a little short-handed, but short of setting them up in the men's room stalls, we don't have any more space available.

[ML]

If anyone is interested, I created this little addition to my custom pulldown menu. In paperspace, tiled to model, just click your desired scale and viola. Of course you can add on to this if you like ie ---->
[1/20]^C^Cz;1/120xp;

Mark


ID_SCALE  [->Scale Drawing]
                 [1/16]^C^Cz;1/192xp;
                 [--]
                 [1/8]^C^C_z;1/96xp;
                 [--]
                 [1/4]^C^Cz;1/48xp;
                 [--]
                 [<-1/1]^C^Cz;1/1xp;

[AVCAD]

zoom
1/20xp

You were SOOOO close..

ACTUALLY....if you are in floating paper space the command is...

zoom;s;1/20xp

OHHHH...you were so close!  

[CADaver]

zoom
1/20xp

You were SOOOO close..

ACTUALLY....if you are in floating paper space the command is...

zoom;s;1/20xp

OHHHH...you were so close!  

The "S" is unnecessary

[ML]

Actually I am perfectly correct

If you were doing 1" = 10' then your scale factor would be 1/120xp
1" is representing a foot (12")
12X10=120

As far as the macro is concerned you do not use the S

It is zoom (Z) enter ( 1/120xp enter (

Did you see the pulldown menu I posted? It works perfect.

I thought that the person that started this post could make use of it

Mark

[ML]

They were suppose to be semicolons in the above macro but I got smileys instead

[CADaver]

They were suppose to be semicolons in the above macro but I got smileys instead

Quote this message then follow below.

See the little code box above the message pane

If you wrap posted code in square brackets [ ] around the word CODE and /CODE it won't do that.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

<square bracket>CODE<square bracket>

code stuff

<square bracket>/CODE<square bracket>

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Like this:

Code: [Select]

code stuff

[ML]

Hummm

Not sure I understand

[hendie]

when you're posting code. after you've typed it, select it, then hit the CODE button right above where you're typing ~ it will automatically wrap your selection in
[ code ] your code stuff here [/ code ] (but with no spaces)
like

Code: [Select]

your code stuff here
simple, no ?

[ML]

;;;;;

[ML]

I see, thank you

I just disabled smileys and it worked well also

[PDJ]

If you're really confused about scale factors and how big 1/8th inch text should be when the scale is 1:20, take a look at the CadCARD.  Just do a search on Autograph technical services.

The CadCARD is a slide rule card, printed on both front and back with one side having all kinds of drawing scale settings on it and the other having dimvars settings.  

My card sits right next to my Nostromo N52 and goes with me wherever I do Cad work.  I even have a second one for my home computer.  I't around $12.00 and worth ten times that much.  I've been using one I bought way back in R11 and it's still goin strong..

Check it out, it's worth a look.

http://www.cadcard.com/

[ML]

LOL

This is  pretty elementary CAD

Listen, if you have 1/8" = 1'
Then take the 8, times it by 12 (as there is 12 inches in a foot), this equals 96

96 is your scale factor

Likewise 1/4"= 1'   ( 4 X 12) 48 is your scale factor

Now, what I was referring to earlier was 1" = 10' (Architectural Units)
Not 1:20 which is engineering units

So, once again, if you take 12 as 1 inch is representing a foot, then you simply times 12X10 and 120 is your scale factor

Of course it can get complicated if you want.

Pop Quiz:

Can anyone tell me what the scale factor would be for 4" = 5680'  

[ML]

Hey PD


I see where the confusion started   LOL
I originally put    [1/20]^C^Cz;1/120xp;

OK, that is how I display it on The Pulldown we use in work, it is short for 1"=20' not 1/20   Perhaps I shouls say 1/20'

Sorry about that


Mark

[CADaver]

15840

4" = 1 mile
1'= 3 miles
1'=15840'