Re: 1'0"=3/32"
I am going to go back a few posts and make some replies as now I am back from seeing the family for Thanksgiving.
charcoaldabs said:
How can I adjust the scale later? Since I'm using the scanned in document, my understanding is I have to use the same scale on my VW drawing, and the same sized document that I scanned in.
Drawing in VW, you are always drawing by feet and inches. No matter what scale you are in, a
line is always however many feet and inches you tell it to be. Thus, if you change the scale, on paper the
line changes length, but in scale it is the same. So, you can change a drawing from 1/4"=1' to 1/2"=1' and everything on paper will double in size, but when you take a scale rule to it, they will be the same length. That is the beauty of scale. You can globally change the scale in in the "Layers" dialog.
lightbyfire said:
I was just sitting here thinking, how good quality are the plans you have anyway? It might not be a bad idea for you to totally redraft the space, based on your own real measurments, essentially make your own
as-builts, instead of relying on potentially inaccurate plans.
This is probably a very good idea, or
break out your trusty scale rule, or get one of those scale
roller things and measure the drawing you have. Working with a drawing that has been scanned into VW is a PITA. Just check out this
thread about it, that I started. Or, the lest you can do is copy the scanned document over and then get rid of the scanned
image.
Somewhere you were asking about layers. You should utilize them to the fullest, along with classes. I am just gong to give you an example based on how I work, and I am sure other have different ways to work. Layers allow you scale things, and they work very similar to layers in say Photoshop. You can put similar things in each layer and then arrange which layers are on top, and which are visible. I usually create a layer that is the
theatre architecture, one layer that is lighting positions, one for lighting instruments, one for scenery, one for other linesets, one for the
title block, and others as needed. Layers are really useful when you are making detail drawings of things (i.e. designer or TD details) as you can have multiple scales on one
page.
Then you have classes. Classes allow you to set default attributes for what you draw within a layer. Classes are very similar to layer ins AutoCAD. You can set a class
line weight, color, fill,
etc. Classes refer to how things look on a drawing. I will have a class for lighting instruments, lighting positions, I have a series of GP (
ground plan) classes for architecture, lines (CL/PL,
etc), basically anything that needs to look different gets its own class.
As you add more to your drawing you will find that sheets are very helpful as well. Technically all a sheet is, is a group of active and non active classes and layers so that you can see what you want. I actually draw my groundplan and section on top of eachother. if you turned on all the layers and classes at the same time it would look like a mess. Sheets allow you to keep everything organized.