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I was in architectural drafting in high school in 1977 when Autocad did not exist. I'm retired as a CPA but I'd like to spend some time with my first love of designing. Can you help an old geezer understand how you add the dimension lines? Designing my retirement home in the mountains.
@@edwardgreenlee3571 I will love to help you with your design and help you to understand how to add the dim lines if you agree, in change I would love you to explain me how to use your scales, because I´m an architech from México so we use different scales but now I´m living in Atlanta so I need to learn 1 or 2 tips
@@artemisarios141 Way back when, I used an architects ruler, which has several scales, which is set to inches per foot. So 1/4" scale equaled 1 foot. I assume Mexico is metric. Hope that helps. Right now I have no time to spare with Autocad, until later this summer.
I am working with Auto CAD drawings at work that are from a consultant that were not drawn at 1:1 in Model Space, they use a Civil Engineering Scale. To further complicate things, they are not drawn to the scale that they are supposed to be at, and they are additionally scaled by the viewport. Furthermore , the drawing units are set to Decimal. I think I figured out that some of them, that were supposed to be 1" = 10', were drawn at 1/12 size, and the view port was set to 1:10. I was able to scale the drawing up to true size and set the view port to 1"-10" and it seems to work. One of the drawings has no dimensions on it and it don't know what the actual scale is. The Scale Bar, which is for 1"=40' measures out to 40" instead of feet, which is 1/12 size. But the Viewport is set to 1"-40'. If the drawing is already at 1"-40', shouldn't it be tiny in a 1"-40' view port? It takes up a good portion of the page. I have no idea what is doing on. I read that 1"-40" is a scale used for drawings done at a 1:4 ratio, so I'm wondering if that has something to do with it. This is the most confusing thing I have ever dealt with in my life. For the love of God, just draw everything at 1:1 in model space.
@@Trump_Gaming Lol, at the time it was, but it wasn't that complicated once I figured out the drawing was at a 1:12 scale in Model Space. That combined with the ratio the view port was set to gave you the scale as noted. So, there was a scale called 1"=40', but it was set to 1 unit = 40. It didn't make sense until I established that the drawing was drawn at 1:12, or 1"=1'-0". That times 40 equals 1" = 40'.
We primarily work in paper space so we determine what the scale of the drawing (ex. 1”=20’) will be depending on the size of paper 11x17 or 24x36 and the drawing subject ; floor plan or large lot and proceed to draw the object to that scale. But working 1:1 in model space, prior to printing, how would we determine what scale to state on the drawing i.e., 1”=20’, 1”=30’ etc…..???????
Thank you again for the tips! The photos from your email are beautiful -- thank you for sharing those as well. I'm living vicariously through you right now as I sit CADDING around in my Kentucky basement.
Thank you! Glad the videos and tips have helped! And happy you liked the email this week. It was a great trip, and so random, it was actually a lake called Kentucky-aylene!
Dude your a great instructor, ive only been in the industry for about 7 months. I use Revit mainly on a day to day but we use AutoCAD MEP as well. Loving the vids!
Hi guys, how to make Model Space and Layout Space always look like a "Print Preview"? -this way we can always see the actual output - without always going to Print Setting to preview how it looks
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I was in architectural drafting in high school in 1977 when Autocad did not exist. I'm retired as a CPA but I'd like to spend some time with my first love of designing. Can you help an old geezer understand how you add the dimension lines? Designing my retirement home in the mountains.
I gotta know did you figure it out? And how is the design going?
@@Vanillabean321 I did not and will need to revisit later.
@@edwardgreenlee3571 I will love to help you with your design and help you to understand how to add the dim lines if you agree, in change I would love you to explain me how to use your scales, because I´m an architech from México so we use different scales but now I´m living in Atlanta so I need to learn 1 or 2 tips
@@artemisarios141 Way back when, I used an architects ruler, which has several scales, which is set to inches per foot. So 1/4" scale equaled 1 foot. I assume Mexico is metric. Hope that helps. Right now I have no time to spare with Autocad, until later this summer.
I am working with Auto CAD drawings at work that are from a consultant that were not drawn at 1:1 in Model Space, they use a Civil Engineering Scale. To further complicate things, they are not drawn to the scale that they are supposed to be at, and they are additionally scaled by the viewport. Furthermore , the drawing units are set to Decimal. I think I figured out that some of them, that were supposed to be 1" = 10', were drawn at 1/12 size, and the view port was set to 1:10. I was able to scale the drawing up to true size and set the view port to 1"-10" and it seems to work. One of the drawings has no dimensions on it and it don't know what the actual scale is. The Scale Bar, which is for 1"=40' measures out to 40" instead of feet, which is 1/12 size. But the Viewport is set to 1"-40'. If the drawing is already at 1"-40', shouldn't it be tiny in a 1"-40' view port? It takes up a good portion of the page. I have no idea what is doing on. I read that 1"-40" is a scale used for drawings done at a 1:4 ratio, so I'm wondering if that has something to do with it. This is the most confusing thing I have ever dealt with in my life. For the love of God, just draw everything at 1:1 in model space.
Holy shit. That sounds like a nightmare to deal with.
@@Trump_Gaming Lol, at the time it was, but it wasn't that complicated once I figured out the drawing was at a 1:12 scale in Model Space. That combined with the ratio the view port was set to gave you the scale as noted. So, there was a scale called 1"=40', but it was set to 1 unit = 40. It didn't make sense until I established that the drawing was drawn at 1:12, or 1"=1'-0". That times 40 equals 1" = 40'.
What a CAD master I found after a long search. I wish you were a master in Revit as well. Keep up bro.
Balkan Architect is a rad youtube resource for Revit.
We primarily work in paper space so we determine what the scale of the drawing (ex. 1”=20’) will be depending on the size of paper 11x17 or 24x36 and the drawing subject ; floor plan or large lot and proceed to draw the object to that scale. But working 1:1 in model space, prior to printing, how would we determine what scale to state on the drawing i.e., 1”=20’, 1”=30’ etc…..???????
Thank you again for the tips! The photos from your email are beautiful -- thank you for sharing those as well. I'm living vicariously through you right now as I sit CADDING around in my Kentucky basement.
Thank you! Glad the videos and tips have helped! And happy you liked the email this week. It was a great trip, and so random, it was actually a lake called Kentucky-aylene!
Thank you. Can you please recommend how to make a clean and easy to use screen profile for floor plans drawings? (Sorry for my English)
Dude your a great instructor, ive only been in the industry for about 7 months. I use Revit mainly on a day to day but we use AutoCAD MEP as well. Loving the vids!
Hi guys, how to make Model Space and Layout Space always look like a "Print Preview"?
-this way we can always see the actual output - without always going to Print Setting to preview how it looks
The most important thing, for me, that interested me:
Scaling by factor and by reference
I didn't see it, I didn't understand it.
Greate. I learn so much.
THANKYOU
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