Topic: Civil Points differ from 2005 and 2006

[Jeff_M]

Heh, 90% of all my Subdivison street plans for the past 30 years are at 40 scale....

Of course, for the past 5, or so, years they've been going to 30 and 20 scale......between the miscellaneous crud that the plan checkers just HAVE to have that only takes up space and my tired eyes that don't want to focus on small things I NEED more space between the linework......

As for the default, I dunno, but it it will give me something to investigate this wet weekend.

[Dinosaur]

At least 3/4 of my work is at 50 scale.  Plats are mostly at 100 and the rest is small site plan work that ends up in 20 scale with a bit of 30 scale if the site is odd shaped or too big.  Our plan & profiles have always been 50 scale with 10 vertical, but I have a new sheet template ready to deploy that will be 20 and 5 because of the latest rounds of district review comments.  There is just not enough physical room at any larger scale to show all of the <deleted> they insist on having on the plan and have the 1/8" lettering they demand.

[Jeff_M]

Why do all of Autodesk civil products default to a 40 scale?  I use 40 scale for absolutely nothing and don't know anybody who does.  The only place I have seen the scale used is in state highway dept. drawings.  Worse, I have not found where to change this default.  I can overcome some of the problem by using a template, but this does not help when a drawing is created via wblock.  I have tried changing the value in every acad.dwt I can find, yet any file created from it still starts life at 40 scale.  Any suggestions would be greatfully accepted

I think I found what you need to change......this is stored in the Registry, for my Land2006 the key is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R16.2\ACAD-4008:409\Profiles\Land Desktop\Defaults\AecBase40\DwgSetup\Imperial

under this are CivilDimScale and DwgScale, both of which are set to 40 in a brand new install and I don't see how to change them in the software, so maybe changing the values directly in the registry will solve your problem.....

[dubb]

hey thanks guys. im kinda sketchy messing with the registry so i all hae to ask one of my CAD IT managers to do that. but thanks for all the support. just to let you know, i have been using the map 3d in 2006 and 2005 for about a year now. ever since then i always been learning more about autocad and all its distributions.

[Jeff_M]

...so maybe changing the values directly in the registry will solve your problem.....

I just verified that by changing these values in the registry to 50 scale and a Vertical scale of 10, a new drawing created via Wblock now have the correct 50/10 scales applied....even though the original drawing I had left at 40/4.

[Dinosaur]

Thanks Jeff, I owe you a bunch of help with some Civil 3D styles or something for that fix.