what size paper is typical for "print to scale"
#1 
Posted 22 July 2016 - 07:47 AM
Good Forenoon,
Cheers all for your help. I saw many onetime postal service on this topic, just some were pre 2016 and I'm not sure there was a preferred respond...
What is the all-time style to handle projects that will be printed at 1/4" scale versus ones that volition be printed at i/viii"? Do I need to make up one's mind folio size and calibration choices before starting the project? I have ready all my text items to brandish at the size I want for a i/4" drawing. One time I have that established, do I need to gear up upwards some other set of options for ane/eight" projects, or is in that location a fashion to easily adjust every examination item proportionately (before whatever drawing and/or after cartoon is about finished)?
I am limiting myself to one effect per day. 
TIA
Dave
#2
Posted 22 July 2016 - 08:01 AM
Dave, I print on basically ii newspaper sizes. The paper I generally utilise for one/4 scale is 24 x 36. If a firm is too big to fit on 24 x 36 then I increase the 24 inch dimension in increments of 2 inches until the layout(due south) fit. My printer can handle upward to 36 past 48. Commercial printers (at press service) even bigger but even 36 x 48 is too big to handle. For 11 10 17 I volition print "fit to page" with the layout for 24 ten 36 newspaper press. This does give you a calibration less than ane/8. If you want to print your drawings with a layout that fits of 24 x 36 and 1/4 scale and impress xi x 17 (and i/8 scale), then your layout will have more than white space forth the perimeter. If you can print on 12 x 18 paper (some printers can practise this, especially inkjets) that paper size is exactly one/2 of 24 x 36. Nevertheless 12 x 18 paper is a special order and costs proportionally more 11 x 17. Clear equally mud? Also, since yous should not calibration off a drawing away, just make a note that if printed on xi x17 paper the cartoon is "fit to folio" and not to calibration.
Kevin
Another point. I print my drawings on 11 ten 17 paper to provide me a paper backup. I fold the drawings in one-half and stick in a standard folder. You merely can not have enough backup options. When you draw for a long time, the digital ones seems to disappear through time and estimator upgrades.
#three
Posted 22 July 2016 - 09:31 AM
Personally, all my drawings are prepare up for ane/four" and if I print at 3/16" and then I live with the reduced text etc. Yous tin can use autoscale, but I've establish that it causes more problems than it solves. I never print at 1/8" only if I was going to, I would prepare specific "blank" drawings with text sizes etc. already configured so that everything is legible at 1/8", the same as I did for detail drawings at ane/ii" & 1"
Keith
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#4
Posted 22 July 2016 - ten:59 AM
Are you using plan sets or multi-drawings? Plan sets you can set up unlike sets at different scales. I take a template for each size and the only and the only item that you demand to take different versions of are championship blocks. Other than that I can print out the same assail a 11x17 page and send a client a 22x34 sheet to be plotted.
#5
Posted 26 July 2016 - 07:01 AM
Cheers, guys. Role of my trouble is working for different builders that take their own drawing requirements for page sizes and scales od drawings...
What is the best way to handle a detail cartoon? I depict my floor program, dimension information technology, and note it up. At present I desire to show a accident up of the kitchen cabinets at a larger scale. Do I set upward a custom drawing style? All existing dims and notes are too big. If I put my note and call outs on the plan prepare page, they do not movement when I revise the drawing.
I've spent several years using Softplan, merely ever just for the floor plans. Never did much of anything with 3d or elevations, just drew them with linework. Just upgraded to 2016 and I'm trying to break quondam habits and take advantage of the tools softplan provides.
Is there a completed sample project (fairly involved) I can view to see how information technology is all put together? Can I picket the training video library on my ipad? other preparation resources?
Thanks over again,
Dave
#six
Posted 28 July 2016 - 01:07 PM
I like Keith setup my drawings all at 1/4 inch and if I ever print at 3/16 inch scale so I live with the text being a little smaller. I also print sets on 11x17 for when I become into the field every bit it is easier to agree and make marks on but I e'er print to scale at 50% to my original 24x36 and it typically only chops off the title block and not the actual drawings.
Simply onto your question about the enlarged partial drawings, I have been using custom drawing modes for that in the few times that I have done information technology. Most of my cases the normal drawing fashion is used for my partials and are printed at 1/4 inch scale while my custom modes are primal maps at a smaller calibration that show the entire apartment building and not the single unit. So for those reasons my custom mode usually has most of the text removed and if I need to add something similar unit of measurement numbers and so I will practice information technology on that drawing mode and manually change the text calibration.
Of note Overview and Detail Notes can be prepare at different scales if yous notice yourself using two unlike text sizes often.
#vii
Posted 28 July 2016 - 01:fifty PM
I have set up some cartoon sheets that are completely blank, simply take things similar dimension arrow, arrows and text PRE customized, so that they come out about the right size depending on the scale. As follows:
Keith
In that location are 10 types of people in this earth ....... Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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