Monday, January 21, 2008

Scaling AutoCAD viewports to common Geographical scales

So, you have your AutoCad drawing completed, you have your layout drawn, and view ports of the drawing added. Now that all of this is done, you want the viewports to be scaled to a nice, round scale for your legend.

The way you do this is the Zoom XP command. Type Zoom (shortcut Z) then> XP and enter one of the values listed in the chart below for the corresponding scale:

Zoom XP

Scale

Zoom XP

Scale

0.200 xp

1:5 000

4.000 xp

1:250

0.333 xp

1:3 000

5.000 xp

1:200

0.500 xp

1:2 000

6.667xp

1:150

0.666 xp

1:1 500

10.00 xp

1:100

1.000 xp

1:1 000

20.00 xp

1:50

1.333 xp

1:750

25.00 xp

1:40

1.666 xp

1:600

33.33 xp

1:30

2.000 xp

1:500

40.00 xp

1:25

2.500 xp

1:400

50.00 xp

1:20

3.333 xp

1:300

100.0 xp

1:10