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Drawing Scales and Paper Sizes

8. Setting Up a Drawing

8.1 List command

8.2 Measuring distances

8.3 Calculating areas

8.4 Quick calc command

8.5 ID command

8.6 Drawing units

8.7 Drawing limits

8.8 Drawing Scales and Paper Sizes

8.9 Scalelist command

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Title:Drawing Scales and Paper Sizes
Description:Drawing plot scales and paper sizes explained in details
The only other consideration you need to make when plotting in Model Space is the plotting scale. This will be different depending upon which drawing units you are using.Working in millimetres is straightforward because you can use the actual scale in the Plot dialogue box since plotted units are also in millimetres. For example, a drawing to be plotted at 1:500 with drawing units in millimetres will have a plot scale of 1=500. Working in metres is a little more complicated. You will need to divide the scale by 1000 to get the correct figure. For example, a drawing to be plotted at 1:500 with drawing units in metres will have a plot scale of 1=0.5 which is 1000 times smaller than the figure for millimetres because there are 1000 millimetres in a metre.