Copying drawings

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scot6puk
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Copying drawings

Post by scot6puk » Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:02 am

Hi I have the latest Qcad and I am using Windows7. What I would like to know is when I scale a 12" to 1ft drawing to 7mm to 1ft using 7(12*25.4) how can I save the same layers that I did in 12" to 7mm to 1ft? Also how do you get the measurement rulers in Metric as well?

Len

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Re: Copying drawings

Post by andrew » Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:50 am

scot6puk wrote:how can I save the same layers that I did in 12" to 7mm to 1ft?
Not sure I understand. Scaling should not do anything to your layers. Do you want to create a scaled copy on different layers or copy the scaled drawing to a new file or something similar?
scot6puk wrote:Also how do you get the measurement rulers in Metric as well?
The ruler format is the same as the dimension format. You can adjust the dimension format unter Edit > Drawing Preferences > Dimension Settings.

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Re: Copying drawings

Post by scot6puk » Wed Apr 08, 2015 4:26 pm

andrew wrote:
scot6puk wrote:how can I save the same layers that I did in 12" to 7mm to 1ft?
Not sure I understand. Scaling should not do anything to your layers. Do you want to create a scaled copy on different layers or copy the scaled drawing to a new file or something similar?
scot6puk wrote:Also how do you get the measurement rulers in Metric as well?
The ruler format is the same as the dimension format. You can adjust the dimension format unter Edit > Drawing Preferences > Dimension Settings.
When I scale from 12" to 1'ft to 7mm to 1'ft my different layers become one layer how can I save all my layers?

Len

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Re: Copying drawings

Post by andrew » Wed Apr 08, 2015 4:29 pm

Could it be that you have "use current attributes" enabled in the scale dialog? If so, try disabling it.

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Re: Copying drawings

Post by scot6puk » Wed Apr 08, 2015 4:39 pm

andrew wrote:Could it be that you have "use current attributes" enabled in the scale dialog? If so, try disabling it.
Ok Andrew, I will try that.

Len

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