
Then create one scale of work, such as the overall site, on one of the sites, and the detail area work on the other site. You may need to copy an Xref of the site base to two different locations in Model Space, as the detail areas are usually in the middle of the site. Set the scale manually to fit the area where you're working. You can set more than one scale in a drawing in several ways, such as: If possible, avoid creating an overly complex layer naming or viewing system for work that takes place in different scaled areas in one drawing. Looking for a way to convert a site plan from Imperial to metric and wondering what standard metric scale you should use in the new viewport, or vice versa? Trying to save in a detail into your Imperial detail library that was originally metric? See our Metric and Imperial conversion cheat lists. We do not recommend using the AutoCAD Annotative Scale setting to show your plan at different scales. To account for this scale variation in such a drawing, you need to input your graphics with more than one scale.įor example, you might want your MText with leaders to be plotted at two different scales in Paper Space.įor information on setting the scale in your drawing, see our Set the Scale documentation page. When a drawing contains several viewports, each viewport can have a different scale.



