Posted by librecaduser on May 27, 2021; 12:00am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Understanding-Scaling-tp5719627p5720684.html

dellus wrote

The print scale is solely defined in the Print Preview scale input box. You can't circumvent that.

General Scale in Current Drawing Preferences only defines the size of dimensions elements like text height, arrow size, extension lines. It is recommendable to set the inverted value of the intended print scale here, then you can leave the individual settings to the out of box value. So with 1:48 it is 48.

I am confused by these two parts:
1) " It is recommendable to set the inverted value of the intended print scale here"
This means we set General scale here to 48 since we intend to print at 1/4" to 12", correct?
If correct, should we leave the print preview scale alone OR
also set it to 1:48 to get actual printing at 1/4" to 12" scale?

2) "then you can leave the individual settings to the out of box value"
What individual settings are you referring to?
And what out of box value are you referring to?
Can you give an example?
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Bottom line is how does one set scales in General scale and in print preview scale
to get 1/4" to 12" scaling?

I looked at the documentation, and I did not see any specifics on proper scale setting for printing.
may be I looked into the wrong place.

Thank you again!