Scale hatches for different printout scales

Hello everybody,

I'm wondering if there's an way of scaling existing hatches according
to different scales in print-out.
e.g.: I've got drawings, drawn in scale 1:50 and hatched for printout
in a suitable scale. If I want to print extracts (details) from this
drawing in let's say 1:5, the existing hatches are too huge in scale.
Is there a way to rescale the existing hatches ? Something like a
global scale factor which in reverse scales every hatch.

The problem is, that I want to have the 1:50 drawing as an under-layer
in my detail drawings as an xref. So I would have to change every hatch
scale in the main 1:50 drawing, which then would be too dense for
printing in 1:50. For linetypescale this works really fine using the
linetype-scalefactor.

Any comments would be a great benefit for me!
Thank you!


Markus

 

No simple way to do what you want in acad.
Most people would hatch the same thing twice on distinct layers if they want
to print it a different scales.

 

Thank you for your quick response!

So it definitely doesn't work with hatches like it works with
linetypes?

Greets
Markus

 

Definitely.

 

Your issue would seem to start with the problem of drawing to scale. In
AutoCAD you draw the drawing in model space full size, ie 1:1. You plot
from the layout views (paper space) at the scale you want your sheets
to plot.
You should NEVER draw to a scale. I can't even concieve how anyone
could be productive trying to draw to scale in a computer.
If you draw 1:1 your hatches will scale according to your viewport
scale and the LTSCALE factor.
Every AutoCAD course I have taken or been involved in teaches that you
draw 1:1 and use viewports in paper space to plot the drawings at the
scale you need.

Daryl Stockton

 

I used to work for an engineering firm where everything was drawn in
ACAD to scale. This would quickly turn most people's brains to mush.

After a week of this, I started drawing everything 1 to 1 damn the
consequences and after the boss saw how much faster I was producing
made everyone switch. I also had to teach everyone how to scale paper
space and setup the sheets. No one understood how I could plot every
sheet whether 1/4 scale of 1=50 at 1 to 1 scale...