Posted by Michael Hayes on
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Feature-proposal-tp5706646p5707669.html

This is why CAD programs like AutoCAD, TurboCAD, etc have separate World Space and Paper Space. For example you draw a house full size in World Space and then you set up a drawing sheet and title block in Paper Space and add a viewport which shows some or all of what you have drawn in World Space suitably cropped and scaled for printing.

The advantage of this approach is that you can have multiple viewports showing different parts of what you've drawn in World Space all at different scales on the same sheet in Paper Space. Using the example of a house you might want to show the Front Elevation at 1:100 scale, the Ground Floor Plan at 1:50 scale, and the Kitchen at 1:20 scale.

CAD programs which take this approach usually allow you to have more than one Paper Space (but only one World Space). So you can also set up several different drawing sheets with viewports showing different aspects of what you have drawn in World Space.