![]() ![]() Can eliminate issues later on, especially if someone else starts working on your drawings and doesn’t realize you’ve scaled things. You’re not going to run out of room and you can always adjust and change up the scale by using your viewports later on.ĭoing all of your design work at one to one. ![]() ![]() Similar to the last tip, there’s no benefit or reason not to draw everything in AutoCAD at one-to-one or full scale. Only draw/ design at 1:1 scale aka real size.Whether you’re doing floor plans, simple details, detailed design drawings, or schematics, there’s no reason or benefit to not use model space when drawing. Layout tabs or paper space are there to create our drawings and model space is for our model and design. (Learn about the difference between Model/Layout Spaces) It’s best practice to do all of your drawing and design work within model space in AutoCAD. This one is pretty straightforward but not always followed. While there are always exceptions to every rule, if you can follow these tips, your drawings are going to be off to a great start! Today I wanted to share a few best practice tips when it comes to scale and designing in AutoCAD. I can’t remember how many times I’ve been asked about setting up scales, fixing viewports, annotative text, what size to draw things in model space, and so much more… Arguably one of the more confusing topics in AutoCAD to newer designers and those that learned prior to paper space/annotative text is scaling within AutoCAD. ![]()
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