Posted by Enzodan on Oct 17, 2020; 11:14am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Understanding-Scaling-tp5719627.html

I am a new user to LibreCad.   I’m learning to tool and enjoying it.
I have experience with drafting practices but the practices are old fashion, paper, ruler, t-square, pencil.

I wanted to learn more about scaling in LibreCad.    I approached the process by drawing a border on the drawing area.   I live in the US so unit will be inches.    The border is 8 x 11,  just a little smaller than A4 paper size.    The reason for the border is I want to create a template with a tittle block for all my drawings.

If I was drafting by hand I would take my ruler and determine a scale so that the object could be represented in the border area.   For example if I want to draw a box 32 x 64 inches I could use the scale 1/8=1”, so the actual size of the box on paper is 4 x 8.   That’s how I normally handle scaling when drafting by hand.  But from what  I am reading, it seems the preferred way to manage scaling in LibreCad is at print time.

I think what I need to do is keep scaling to 1.   Draw the object to the actual size and determine scale by looking at print preview to make sure object renders correctly in A4 paper size.  

With The above example I outlined, is there away to apply scale only to the object and not to the border?   Basically leave the border as is and let the tooling manage the scale for the object.
I want to set the scale at 1/8=1” and when I draw a line, I want to specify the length of 32 inches and height of 64”.   The scaling will be applied so that the object falls in the border.

Thanks