The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version of Windows.īack in the 'board days, once a drawing was finished and approved it got the "ORIGINAL" stamp in red ink. Most CAD systems automatically insert the scale notes so again I see absolutely no reason not to use them. That's not going to happen with a modern CAD system but it's one where I would have torn out my hair if the scale had not been indicated. Now you can easily scale up from 1:1 to 7:1 because it's an integer multiplication but to make dimensions in the scaled views you have to set "dimlfac" (I dredging up musty memories here so don't kill me if I'm wrong) to the reciprocal of 7 which is a repeating decimal (0.142857142857.) which had only been entered to 3 or 4 decimal places so all the dimensions were approximate and had round off errors. They liked to use unusual scales for detail views like 7:1. We bought a product line from another company. SolidWorks Legion RE: Remove scale? KENAT (Mechanical) 19 Jan 15 22:23 Only the dimensions on the drawing are what are important. If I teach somebody about scales and proper usage, it's forgotten the next day and they still don't care. So, if I add a scale, it seems in most cases nobody really cares. The others are newer and not trained in fully understanding how to read drawings (which seems the norm these days). The people that noticed were experienced that were used to using scales on drawings. Most said they never looked at, some said they noticed it was odd. Nobody noticed from checker, thru approval, machining, vendor, inspection, assembly. I made a drawing with an odd scale to see who notices. A printed reduced drawing or PDF file is not viewed to scale. I never look at scales, other than typing/inserting them onto the drawing. I can look at the dimensions and know that detail/view is larger or smaller than other views. SolidWorks Legion RE: Remove scale? MikeHalloran (Mechanical) 15 Jan 15 22:26 I feel with digital data that this may be eventually revised. Of textual content need not have an entry in the Pictorials, cable assemblies, and tabulated and otherĭrawings not prepared to any scale, the word “NONE” For example:Ĥ.23.3 Drawings Not to Scale. Predominate scale shall be entered directly below the Scale of each view or section drawn to other than the Ratio, or decimal are indicated as examples below. The options for depicting scale, fraction, Shall be entered after “SCALE” in the space provided For multisheetĭrawings, the predominant scale used for each sheet Sections are drawn shall be entered after “SCALE” in
The scale to which the majority of views and Which drawings are prepared shall be indicated on theĭrawing. It is desirable, whenever practicable, thatĭetail drawings be prepared to the same scale as pertinentĤ.23.2 Indication of Scale. Practicable, drawings may be prepared to reduced orĮnlarged scale.
Drawings shall be drawn to a scale thatĭepicts all details of the item clearly and accurately,Ĥ.23.1 Selection of Scale. Scale expresses the ratio of the object size as drawn NX8.0, Solidworks 2014, AutoCAD, Enovia V5 RE: Remove scale? ewh (Aerospace) 15 Jan 15 17:51 Sure it's not going to be used to actually scale from practically speaking, but it gives context from which all subsequent labels are understood. Otherwise what units is the scale in? "This view is 4x size of the base view" is a lot more words than "4x" and if your "4x" isn't indicative of the 'mutually understood' full-scale (1 paper = 1 part ) (or whatever unit that's declared) then you have to explain it, and that is not something that should have to be explained. I don't know that there is an unambiguous, clear, and logical method to convey relation between views without declaring the first view to be at a certain physical scale. It's not so much about "one inch on paper equals 12 inches of part" but more about relation at the bare minimum. At the least, a relationship of 'child views' to the base view is necessary, imo. It's sometimes not obvious that a section or detail is blown up 2x, 4x, etc. If you have views at different scales, it's rather important.