Reply to "SCARM printing to scale?"

It seems that SCARM has the ability to produce 1:1 prints and proportioned images, not scaled drawings.

It would be useful to have a scaled drawing to develop benchwork construction drawings from. In my world in the construction industry, things are usually presented in a scaled drawing, for which the trades can develop shop drawings or working drawings.

The grid, while a visually useful tool is insufficient. I exported the SCARM drawing to an .EMF file, convert to .DXF, and imported into AutoCad. While the result seemed to be in proportion, it did not come in scaled, it was roughly half scale and I had to scale it up. There were still anomalies, i.e., individual 10" track sections varied in length by very small amounts, and overall proportions were slightly off. I can work with this, but it is not exact. Without having a CAD platform, I'm not sure one would be able to do this.

Jim

3/29/2012:39 PM

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