Help: Plan & Profile Scale

[corins]

I am working on a water system project that requires the plan and
profile drawings. To practice I tried trying in CAD an old Plan &
Profile drawing of a water system stations 0+00 to sta 16+60. The plan
was drawn in 1"=50' while the profiles were drawn in Hor. 1" = 50',
Vert. Scale: 1" = 10'. I am using AutoCAD LT and am having problems on
the plotting scales: I did the following:
1. Prepared my title block in paperspace using 24"x36"
2. Set up two viewports (horizontal) one for plan and one for the
profile.
3. Prepared the plan and profile drawings in model space in two
separate files.
4. Xref plan on top viewport and zoom xp to 1/50xp (in model space)
5. Xref profile on bottom viewport at x=1, and y=2. I plan to input
y=5 but it won't fit since the profile is too steep (200 ft elev. max.)

What happened is that the drawings were too big and the on zoomxp scale
that would make me see the drawing in complete detail 9fit on the
viewports) is zoomxp=1/700xp.
That would mean that my scale will be 1=700', right? How could that be
when the drawing I copied was on the scales mentioned above. what should
I do? Please help?

[corins]

I am working on a water system project that requires the plan and
profile drawings. To practice I tried trying in CAD an old Plan &
Profile drawing of a water system stations 0+00 to sta 16+60. The plan
was drawn in 1"=50' while the profiles were drawn in Hor. 1" = 50',

Vert. Scale: 1" = 10'. I am using AutoCAD LT 95 and am having problems

on the plotting scales: I did the following:
1. Prepared my title block in paperspace using 24"x36"
2. Set up two viewports (horizontal) one for plan and one for the
profile.
3. Prepared the plan and profile drawings in model space in two

separate files in 1=1 scale.

4. Xref plan on top viewport and zoom xp to 1/50xp (in model space)
5. Xref profile on bottom viewport at x=1, and y=2. I plan to input
y=5 but it won't fit since the profile is too steep (200 ft elev. max.)

What happened is that the drawings were too big and the only zoomxp
scale that would make me see the drawing in complete detail (fit on the

[corins]

[Stephen Steinhauer]

corins wrote in message <364F7B92...@mail.fm>...
<<snip>>
>What happened is that the drawings were too big and the on zoomxp scale
>that would make me see the drawing in complete detail 9fit on the

>viewports) is zoomxp=1/700xp.
>That would mean that my scale will be 1=700', right? How could that be
>when the drawing I copied was on the scales mentioned above. what should
>I do? Please help?
>

1"=700" or 1"=58 1/3'

1"=50' is 1/600xp

HTH

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Stephen Steinhauer
CAD Operator
ste...@creekelectric.com
Creek Electric Inc.
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