Scaling Blocks from an Xref

[laina]

I have a large base file containing a number of blocks representing well locations. That base file is x-referenced into several other drawings. These drawings are displayed at scales varying from 1:10 to 1:250. Is there a way to get my blocks to scale in those drawings so they are a reasonable size at any drawing scale? I'm thinking of the way that linetypes scale so that the text is appropriate at a number of different drawing scales.

 

[borgunit]

Are you asking "if blocks contained in a drawing, that you have XREFed in can be scaled independent of the rest of the drawing?" This is not possible since the XREF itself is treated as a "block". You could insert the blocks through DesignCenter if you needed them to be independent of the original. Is this helping?

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

 

[laina]

I think you've understood and answered my question but let me reexplain just in case. Linetypes may be part of an XREF but still scale independently of that XREF with the global scale command, LTSCALE. I'm looking for a way to do that with a set of blocks.

 

[lpseifert]

Autocad offers no automatic scaling of blocks that I know of, but there are a number of lisp programs available that can aid in the rescaling of blocks. Try searching for "Blkscake.lsp" on the web.

 

[trussdude]

I agree with borgunit. There is on way of seperating the scaling. Although in lisp you could look for the particular entity and change the dotted pair for scale and try. I am not sure if it would work. XREF are external entities so it may affect your original drawing too - be careful.