Drafting scale question 1

[ferme]

Its been years since I used UG, but an old boss asked me to help with something quick.

If I start NX 7.5 and choose a new size E drafting, and set scale to 1:8, what have I done wrong as a rectangle that is nearly as large as the drawing shows the literal size when dimensioned, ~40" wide?

I am attempting to manually sketch out a floor plan of a room. With that in mind, I'd expect on a 44" wide drawing set to 1:8 scale, the same rectangle would be roughly 320" wide when dimensioned?

Thanks for any help, I am rusty as heck, not to mention I never drafted either when I was using NX
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[JohnRBaker]

I assume that when you say sketching that you're creating your 'drawing' on the face of the actual Drawing, correct?

If so, the Drawing itself doesn't have a scale but rather the 'Views' which are added to the Drawing does. So when you create your E-Size drawing it will ask you to define a view which you can set to a scale of 1:8. Now once the view is placed it will look rather small, but that's OK. Now select the View, press MB3 and pick the 'Active Sketch View' option. Now go ahead and create your 320 inch rectangle (note that view will automatically resize itself to match the sketch geometry). I think from here on out it should be obvious as to what's happening.

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[ferme]

Heh, that was exactly what I was doing, drawing on the sketch without a view

Much appreciated John!