Posted by PattyY on Jan 27, 2020; 8:47pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/scaling-dimensions-tp5718311.html

Hi, I am rekindling old CAD skills and LibreCAD has been awesome. I do architectural applications and I recently ran into a problem I can't find during a search on this forum. I do my drawings in separate .dxf files and draw 1 to 1. I insert those files on a ARCH D page that is 24"x36" landscape. Back in AutoCAD I would use an XREF (external reference) to plot the drawings on the page at usually 1/4 scale (1/4"= 1') I am in the US. I have not found a way to apply an XREF in LibreCAD. I can insert the drawing as a block and then scale it to 1/48 (the ratio to get 1/4 scale). This works fine except the dimensions change from a room being say 10 feet by 20 feet to the dimension changing to the real life on the page dimension of say 1 inch by 2 inches.  For Architectural applications what has everyone been doing to work around this problem?