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Draw to Scale

Drawing scale is something you consider when laying out your drawing. You
establish scale differently in CAD than you do with manual drafting.
Draw the object at full scale in the units you specify.
When you lay out and plot your drawing,
you can set any scale you like.
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Chapter 2 Make the Transition from Paper to CAD
With manual drafting, you must deter-
mine the scale of a view before you start
drawing. This scale compares the size of
the actual object to the size of the object
drawn on paper.
In AutoSketch, drawings are created
using the real-world values you specify.
The computer handles scaling the draw-
ing to fit on paper.
For example, you can use feet and inches,
or meters and kilometers, and so on. You
might draw a motor part with millime-
ters as the unit of length so that entering
25 means "25 millimeters." When you
draw a map, you might select kilometers
so that entering 25 means "25
kilometers."
Although you can easily change scaling
at any point while drawing, it is useful at
the start to select a scale that is appropri-
ate to the drawing you are working on.
This allows you to keep your drawing on
the "page" that AutoSketch displays
onscreen.