Scales in Drawings
Scales in drawings apply to sheets or views. The scale for the active
drawing sheet appears in the status line at the bottom of the window,
and the scale for the active view appears in the view PropertyManager.
You can also scale a drawing when you print
it.
Setting Scales
To set the scale of an existing drawing sheet:
Right-click the sheet and select Properties.
In the Sheet
Properties dialog box, edit the values of Scale.
To set the scale of a drawing view:
For existing drawing views, select a view or views,
then set the Scale
in the PropertyManager.
For new drawing views where the PropertyManager
appears during view insertion (such as Model, Projected, Predefined, and
so on), set the Scale
in the PropertyManager.
The pre-set options in Use
custom scale differ based on the dimensioning standard.
Autoscaling
Automatically
scale new drawing views in the Drawings Options controls the scaling
of new views as follows:
When selected, the SolidWorks software automatically
scales the views to best fit on the drawing sheet, and the scale of the
drawing sheet becomes the same as the scale of the views.
When cleared, the views are inserted at the scale
of the drawing sheet.
When you insert Projected Views, Auxiliary Views and Section
Views, the scale is set to Use parent
scale. If you change the scale of a parent view, the scale of all
child views that use the parent scale is updated.