Re: Which Intellicad do you use?

Well they do say "do not scale", but there are always (non-critical) 
occasions where you need to in most mechanical work at least. And it helps

if parts or features shown in one drawing in a set are relatively the same

size as in another or in someone else's drawings which are meant to 
eventually fit together. Even in 3d which is not much use for scaling, you

couldn't have the house drawing on one sheet the same size as the outhouse

on the next just because it fits the paper?

"CW" <cmagers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>I figured it was just a standards thing. In my line of work, no one uses 
>any
> scale rules. Not accurate enough even if you did have a full size print.
> Drawings being reduced in size are the norm.
> "jg" <jg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> It's just not part of the ISO standard - no one recognises it. If I
take
> any
>> drawing into a workshop, building site, office or even into another
> "metric"
>> country, drawn at say 1=75 they won't have a scale rule to match and no
>> gov't dept or any other org. operating under Australian standards
(based
> on
>> ISO) will accept the drawing. Aust. standard Metric scales are
basically
> 1:2
>> 1:5 1:10 and multiples like 1:50 1:500 5:1 50:1 etc. Even the very
> commonly
>> used variations of 1:25 are not strictly speaking acceptable, but
nobody
>> minds - at least it's on all the scale rules.
>>
>> "CW" <cmagers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > How is it "not available"? Just set it that way. I don't do anything
in
>> > metric so I don't know if this is considered bad practice or not but
I
> see
>> > no reason to stick to ridged scale sizes in CAD.
>> >
>> > "jg" <jg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > My work is most often 1=50
>> >> or 1=100, 1=75 would very often be ideal but it's not available.
>> >>
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