DraftSight drawings 2

[Embruguy]

I come from the time of Rotring pens and polymer leads and need a bit of help. How do you scale a drawing to, say, 1/2" = 1'-0". I know the entity is drawn full size but how do you get it to fit a D size sheet? In fact, how do you scale several details to different scales on one sheet. Is there a link in DraftSight to show you this task?

 

[MikeHalloran]

You have to read up on "Model Space" vs. "Paper Space".
Any AutoCAD text will be close enough to help you.

Basically, you build the model, full size, under the "Model" tab.
Then you derive drawings of it, on the "Sheetx" tabs, using "viewports", which look through the sheets at the model, and can be individually scaled and individually have model layers suppressed or displayed.

The learning curve is not fun.

Here's a little help with Draftsight:
Assuming there's a model in the model tab, click on a sheet tab.
If the Properties box is not visible, click Tools Properties.
Click on the edge (default) Viewport.
In the Properties box, scroll down to the viewport scale selector, and select a scale.
Then you can grab the corners of the viewport and shrink it around the model's image.
Click the viewport edge again and you can move the viewport.
Then View Tiles 1Viewport lets you define another viewport.

You can probably take it from there.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[dgallup]

You can do what Mike suggests which is the way it's meant to be done today or you can do it the way I learned back before AutoMAD was 3D and they had even conceived of paper space and model space. You do everything in model space and ignore paper space. You still draw all your geometry at actual size, in 2D with separate views as needed. Then you decide what scale you want to use or what sheet size you want to use, you only get to pick one. From the extents of the model view(s) and the scale or sheet size you can determine the other. Then insert the drawing border as an external reference at a scale that is the reciprocal of the drawing scale. So if you are using 1/2"=1' (1:24) you insert the drawing border at 24:1. Then when you plot you plot at 1:24 and it all fits on your sheet size.

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