Ok, I am tearing my hair out because I never do this. I draft and plot engineering scale drawings almost exclusively. I am trying to figure out how to scale viewports and dimension in architectural units. My paperspace title block is actual papersize. Any tips and tricks are welcomed.
When you zoom your viewports, multiple (or divide - I don't have AutoCAD in front of me to test) that factor by 12 first.
The architectural scale 1/8"=1'-0" is 1"=8', etc.
If the drawing units are inches then the scale for 1/8 is 1=96. Zoom the viewport 1/96xp.
thanks Ric and Dave. Now all I have to do is figure out how to set the dimension style and bob is your uncle.
I'm running Carlson 2013 piggybacked on AutoCAD 2013 so this may not work. Try _ddim at the command line. This should bring up the dialog box where you can edit or switch dim styles. You may have to create an Architectural dim style from scratch (mine does not have one predefined.
At the command line type Units.
Set to Architectural.
Yes, that is one more piece of the puzzle, but he was asking specifically about changing the dimension style. My Carlson 2013 only has the standard and decimal dimension styles predefined, architectural would have to be set up from scratch or copied from elsewhere.
thanks again to everyone for your help
I use the arch quite often but still always forget that the default is inches, not feet. That DDIM command is a tricky one, always difficult to get exactly what I want.