{"id":668,"date":"2017-06-12T11:54:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2017-06-12T11:54:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:54:50","slug":"getting-scale-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/12\/getting-scale-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting scale right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In the occasion you experience problems getting the scale correct in generated pdf of imported drawings, it might be because you did not know about this setting; UseStandardScale.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This applies in the situation where there is a difference on scale when rendering pdf of drawings manually via the PLOT dialog and using <em>Fit To Paper<\/em> compared to using the PDF-setting <em>ScaleType=ScaleToFit<\/em>. A likely cause is that the drawing you imported have custom scale.<\/p>\n<p>When using the PLOT dialog AutoCAD takes additional measures for you and additional settings are adjusted when plotting.<\/p>\n<p>To get the same expected result out of ScaleType when calling AutoCAD Core Console one need to specify <em>UseStandardScale=True<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hence you might need to add <em>UseStandardScale<\/em> to your PDF-settings for <em>ScaleType<\/em> to do what you think it does.<\/p>\n<p>Example configuration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plotter=DWG To PDF.pc3,<br \/>\nMediaName=ISO_full_bleed_A3_(420.00_x_297.00_MM),<br \/>\nPlotStyle=monochrome.ctb,<br \/>\nOffsetX=0,<br \/>\nOffsetY=0,<br \/>\nCenter=True,<br \/>\nRotation=0,<br \/>\nWhatToPlot=Extents,<br \/>\nScaleType=ScaleToFit,<br \/>\nUseStandardScale=True<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the occasion you experience problems getting the scale correct in generated pdf of imported drawings, it might be because you did not know about this setting; UseStandardScale. This applies in the situation where there is a difference on scale when rendering pdf of drawings manually via the PLOT dialog and using Fit To Paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[40,65],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support","tag-document-start","tag-pdf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}