AutoCAD Paper Space Tutorial: AutoCAD Paper Space Tutorial

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Log onto AUGI's web site (Autodesk User Group International - Free signup) and look at their archived ATP content...

http://www.augi.com/education/archive.asp?page=293

July 2008 has a course titled ATP220 AutoCAD 103 From Surviving to Excelling at AutoCAD that might give you what you are looking for.

You coule also post questions here. Are you fimialiar at all with Paperspace or completly new?

In a nutshell, traditionally things are drawn "Fiull scale" in model space. Your title block obviously can't be 100, 200 or 300 feet long so you "scale" a sheet sized border up based on the scale you want to plot. 1/8" = 1' scale you'd have to scale a border up by a factor of 96 to get the border larger so that when the plotting process "shrinks" the whole thing down to fit on paper.

With Paperspace, you draw full size in model. In Paperspace (or the layout tabs as their called now) your title block is drawn in "paper units" so a 30x42 border is drawn that size and plotted 1=1 scale. To get yuor drawing to be "scaled", you open viewports into modelspace, like little tv cameras pointing at your model displaying it within the border in papersace. Scaleing of the drawing is then done by "scaling" the viewports in and out. Their's toolbars and suze with nice user frindly scale optionr or you could use the zoom command and type something like 1/96xp to scale 1/8"=1' times paperspace.

There's new tools in newer versions of AutoCAD to facilitate things like annotations, hatcvhes, etc displating in multiple viewports at different scales at the same time but that get's a little more advanced. Get familiar with the the core concepts before moving on to worrying about things like where to place your notes, dimensions, etc. There's as many options about which way to annotate your drawing when using paperspace as there are options for doing it. so don't be surprised if you get conflicting ideas. The right answer depends on what you draw, how you draw, what you prefer, the benefits of the pros and negatives of the cons of each way in your particular environment, what's easiest for your users to learn to use properly, etc.

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