Data about our built environment is a human right and should be transparent and not governed by a vendor. Update: The popularity of this article has shown the industry needs to break out of the unethical behaviour by proprietary vendors, which result in proprietary incompatibility, proprietary obsolescence, and proprietary subscription. I would play down the title to something more politically correct, but that would risk understating Revit’s limitations that I have to deal with on an almost daily basis. Consider using another shape designed to work with a scaled drawing.Revit is shit. If the scale of the shape is much larger or much smaller than the scale of the drawing page, the shape is not resized. When you drag a shape onto a drawing page, the shape resizes to match the drawing scale. Building plan shapes, for example, work best with scaled drawings, while flowchart shapes work best with unscaled (1:1) drawings. Shapes are designed to work with the template they come with.
In a drawing scale of 1/4" = 1', inches are the page unit. In an office layout with a drawing scale of 2 cm = 1 m (1:50), centimeters are the page unit. Page units represent sizes or distances on the printed page. In a drawing scale of 1/4" = 1', feet are the measurement unit. In an office layout with a drawing scale of 2 cm = 1 m (1:50), meters are the measurement unit.
Measurement units represent sizes or distances in the real world. When you choose a drawing scale, Microsoft Office Visio sets the measurement units and page units automatically. With a scale such as 1:10 (metric units) or 1" = 1' (US units), you can focus in on one cubicle. With a scale such as 1:100 (metric units) or 1/8" = 1' (US units), you can draw an entire floor on one page. The smaller the ratio, the larger the area you can represent: For example, the metric scale for an office layout might be expressed as 1:50, which is the same as 2 cm = 1 m if you measure distances in centimeters and meters. These drawings are sometimes called unscaled drawings you use them to create abstract drawings that don't represent actual objects in the real world.ĭrawing scales are sometimes expressed as a ratio without measurement units. Some templates, such as the Basic Flowchart template, open with a drawing scale of 1:1, which means that 1 inch or centimeter on the printed page represents 1 inch or centimeter in the real world. These drawings are called scaled drawings. Some templates, such as the Office Layout template, open with a pre-defined drawing scale. You can change the drawing scale in any Visio drawing. In metric drawings, 2 centimeters might represent 1 meter. For example, 1 inch on an office layout might represent 1 foot in the actual office. The drawing scale determines how a distance on the page represents a distance in the real world. Shapes might appear larger or smaller, but their real-world size does not change. To give the background pages the same drawing scale, display the background page and follow steps 1–5. On the File menu, click Page Setup, and then click the Drawing Scale tab.Ĭlick Pre-defined scale, and then click a pre-defined architectural, metric, or engineering scale or click Custom Scale and type a custom scale. To give the background pages the same drawing scale, click the background page (for example, VBackground-1) and perform the same steps.
To change the measurement units (such as feet or meters), click the Page Properties tab, and in the Measurement units list, click the units that you want.Ĭlick Apply to save your changes and update the drawing page. Select Pre-defined scale, and then click a pre-defined architectural, metric, or engineering scale or select Custom Scale and type your own scale values. Right-click the page tab, click Page Setup, and then click the Drawing Scale tab. In the following example, the page tab is represented by Page-1, but your page tab may have a different name like VBackground-1 for a background page. The page tab is in the lower-left corner of the drawing area. You can set a different drawing scale for each page in your drawing.įirst locate the page tab of the page you want to change. Display the page for which you want to change the drawing scale.