#Autocad printing to scale update#

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#Autocad printing to scale update#

You can update the field manually with these steps: If you save the drawing, plot, do a regen, or open the drawing, the field will update automatically. What’s so cool about this method is that the field updates when you change the scale of the viewport. Your Mtext now shows the scale of the viewport as you see below. Click outside of the Text Editor to place the text of the layout’s scale.Click OK to close the Field dialog box.You can see how the dialog box looks on the right. For a scale, you usually don’t need to specify a format, since there isn’t any text, just numbers. I have tried both printing in extents and window and they are both offscale. 2- I put my viewport scale to be 1/4'1'-0' and when I go to plot I do NOT choose the 'fit to print' but rather the default which is 1'1'. You’ll see a preview of the text in the Preview box at the upper-right corner of the dialog box. 1- If I dimension my title block in CAD it measures to 16 3/16' wide but when I print it out it equals 16 7/16. If you specified a custom scale, choose Custom Scale. In the Property box, choose Standard Scale if you chose a standard scale in the Properties palette when setting the scale.The dialog box returns and the Object Type box reads Viewport. Back in your drawing, select the layout for which you set the scale.To the right of the Object Type box, click the Select Object button.From the Field Category drop-down list, choose Objects.Inside the text editor, right-click and choose Insert Field to open the Field dialog box.The Text Editor tab appears on the ribbon and you see the text editor in your drawing. At the Specify first corner: and Specify opposite corner: prompts, click to place the text in your title block – or anywhere you want.(On the ribbon, choose Home tab, Annotation panel, Multiline Text.) I explain how in this tip, “ Create a scale for plotting.“