Problems with scale in Autocad LT

[MaX_PoWah]

Hey

I have to do a project for uni involving drawing a housing estate to scale, i have some experience with autocad and have been reading a lot of books but the scale thing is still driving me mad.

Basically what i have is an A3 peice of paper, and on that peice of paper is an area inside which i am supposed to draw my houses etc, and its at a scale of 1:500, so i am trying to translate that into autocad, now i can draw the shape itself in model view no problem, but i have no idea what units autocad is using half the time, and it never translates right onto the paper views no matter how much i play with the settings.

I am right in assuming that the idea with autocad is i draw it all to scale, ie in meters, and then scale it back onto the peice of paper in layout view ?

Thanks a lot for any help, its driving me mad this lol

Tom

 

[PhillyDee]

Hey

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I am right in assuming that the idea with autocad is i draw it all to scale, ie in meters, and then scale it back onto the peice of paper in layout view ?

Thanks a lot for any help, its driving me mad this lol

Tom

Simple answer: Yes.

You draw in whatever units you are using. Autocad doesnt much care what they are. Its a bugger trying to get things to fit on the paper, especially as you are using a scale that they have told you to use. The other way to do it is to use the A3 paper size as a drawing sheet (297 × 420mm) and then use 1:500 and convert everything over. Just like you would do on a draughting desk. I don't know what limitations AutoCAD LT has compared to r14 though.