

Job well done! You have successfully addressed your section view scaling issue and added additional sheet scales to your default list. Now place your section view and notice that it is scaled properly this time, image below. Screenshot of Property Manager & section view below. Open the drawing that you were just working on. Once these sizes have been added to the appropriate standard (ANSI, ISO, etc) we will then save the document. Make sure to use the same syntax as the rest of the document when adding sheet scales. By doing this, the sheet scales we just added will be available in the default sheet scales list moving forward. We will add the custom/missing sheet scale sizes directly into the document. You may notice the sheet scale you chose is missing from the list. This list shows all the default sheet scales currently in SOLIDWORKS. The issue is, the model view is multiple pages blocked off in sections, so I can easily select the print area for each page, however, printing all. dwg format that we are trying to send to another group with no CAD software. Now, look at the sheet scales listed in the document. Print multiple pages from single model view DWG.

txt file name drawingscales.txt and open it in Notepad. This is because I have more than one version of SOLIDWORKS installed on my machine and need to differentiate between them.įind the. You may notice in the image below that my location says SOLIDWORKS Corp 2020 instead of SOLIDWORKS Corp.
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Next, we open up Windows Explorer and navigate to the following folder Windows (C:) > Program Files > SOLIDWORKS Corp > SOLIDWORKS > lang > englishĬ:Program FilesSOLIDWORKS CorpSOLIDWORKSlangenglish We have identified something is off, so how do we fix it? We start by saving and closing all of our open files in SOLIDWORKS. Parent Scale selected in the image below.Īfter clicking ok the section view shrinks to 1:50 scale, image is shown below. The result though is that the section view is scaled to 1:50. In the example below, we see that the section view scale should be 1:5 just like the original view and the Parent Scale option is selected. If the sheet was scaled 1:5 or 1:10, the section view would be scaled smaller than it should be even though the Parent Scale option was selected. If the sheet was scaled 1:2 there were no issues. One of our customers was having an issue with section views not scaling properly in their drawings, but this issue only happened for certain sheet scale sizes. Microsoft Windows Wikipedia:WikiProject Microsoft Windows Template:WikiProject Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows articlesI came across a very interesting issue recently (affecting some users starting in SOLIDWORKS 2020 and later) and have a solution should you come across it as well. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Microsoft Windows, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Microsoft Windows on Wikipedia. WikiProject Microsoft Windows / Computing Industrial design Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design Template:WikiProject Industrial design Industrial design articles This article is within the scope of WikiProject Industrial design, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Industrial design on Wikipedia. This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale.

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