plot scale tips required for a new starter

How did you draw your model? What was your base unit for this drawing? Meters? MM's? (Did you draw it to be 10X10X10X10?or 10,000 x10,000 x10,000 x10,000 ?)

Have you drawn your model in model space? Have you added a border in paperspace that will fit the sheet you are trying to plot to? What is your viewport scale set to?

Assuming you were plotting the drawing to be 1:100 your viewport should be: (10X10X10X10 model) 1/1xp (10,000 x10,000 x10,000 x10,000 ) 1/1000xp

Then make sure when you go to plot that the scale factor is set to 1:1

hth

Brian

for more info, try Lynn Allen's paper space columns

I assume this is meant to be a plot at 1;10 not 1:1? :-)

Have you checked the calibration of the plotter? It seems to me that the plotter is 3% out.

Can you just plot a rectangle at 1:1, say a rectangle of 100mm x 100mm, without any scaling, just to check the plotter?

thanks,

problem solved before i saw your message

you were spot on

1. set viewport scale and then set plot scale to 1:1

-J

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