GAH! What's teh command?

Hello, first time poster, but I'm hoping someone can help before I tear
out what's left of my hair!

I have a drawing done by someone else that they have done something odd
to in model space. They seem to have scaled it for some reason, and
hence, none of my layouts work. I remember being shown a command where
you could "tell" the drawing that a particular object had a known
length and the drawing would re-scale (for want of a better expression)
itself back to 1:1 in model space.

I can;t for the lif of me remeber what that command was, any thoughts?

TIA
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Doug


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SCALE command, perhaps? There's a Reference option to let you use a known
distance as a basis.
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zoom >1xp

 

That didn't help unfortunately and the SCALE command worked (see below)
but isn't the one I'm thinking of, perhaps I'm not explaining it right.
I got shown this command on a course I was on, but I've lost my notes
(DOH!)

Anyway, I have a drawing sent to me by someone else, there is (for
example) a path that I know is 2m wide, the dimension says 2m and all
of the drawing is in the correct proportion, however, the actual (in
drawing units) width of the path is 786.29 (example). Now every other
part of the drawing is out by this factor. I managed to re-scale the
drawing to make it work using the scale command, but I'm convinced
there was a command that I could tell CAD that "these two points should
be 2000 units apart, scale everything so that it is, and then click two
points to indicate the distance.

Or did I imagine this?

Thanks again

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Doug


"Doug's cool. He's metal " - Fnook
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That IS the SCALE command with the "reference" option, as Paul said:

SCALE>> Base point: (click)>>R(for reference)>>Reference lengthclick one
point)>>Second pointclick)>>New lengthenter the number you want).

 

True to internet form and protocol, "Michael Bulatovich"
<> said:

-->That IS the SCALE command with the "reference" option, as Paul
said:
-->
-->SCALE>> Base point: (click)>>R(for reference)>>Reference
lengthclick one
-->point)>>Second pointclick)>>New lengthenter the number you
want).

Might it be the dreaded and utterly dangerous-to-use DIMLFAC ? If the
path is 2000mm long (and you know it) but the dimension reads 789.43
(for example), maybe your DIMLFAC variable is off by (2000/789.43 =
2.53347) Just type DIMLFAC *Enter* 1 *Enter* and your dims will read
the actual length.

Don't sweat the petty things, don't pet the sweaty things

Dr Fleau

 

Only if you use a dimension to find out how long something is, which I don't
believe the OP said he did.
Mind you, he didn't say he didn't either.

 

I thought he was trying dimension in paperspace with a viewport not scaled
1:1

 

what about the dimscale in the primary units box? is it set to 1?

 

You can only be talking about the SCALE command with the REFERENCE length
feature.

Only other way, but wrong way is `fooling' the dimensions using DIMLFAC.
This can be used in a drawing with a scaled up view, for example if a
particular view was scaled by a factor of two using the SCALE command,
DIMLFAC would be set to 0.5