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      sonder
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      I am designing two homes in a high end development. I created my site plans (I have 5 per project - discipline specific) at a scale of 1:20. Low and behold the review committee wants me to recreate these at 1/8" = 1'-0" - you know the architectural scale that no earthwork contractors use....I digress.

      Is there a simple way to scale all the paper space notes and graphics with the sketchup model? I have tried a couple things, but nothing works easily. My solution works, but I need to move and adjust the paper space elements to the new model scale. Also due to the size of the properties I will be spreading each site plan over 2 sheets instead of 1.
      Keep in mind, I also do not want any of the paper space attributes to change in font size or line scale.

      Any thoughts would be appreciated.

      Here is a sample of one of the site plans:


      L113_Site Plan A1.1_1.png

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        driven
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        hi,

        not a layout specific answer, but I'm working in on a 'print to scale' plugin at the moment so had a look at your example.

        currently you have.
        Page Elements: 1:1
        Model Elements: 1:20

        they require a smaller Paper Size i.e. 1/4 size, so to keep exact layout
        Page Elements: 1:25 which would require a scale .25
        Model Elements: 1:100 which would require a scale .25

        but they actually want a different Drawing Scale as well, so to keep exact layout
        Page Elements: 1:24 which would require a scale .24
        Model Elements: 1:96 which would require a scale .24

        could you not get away with
        Page Elements: 1:25 which would require a scale .25
        Model Elements: 1:100 which would require a scale .25

        How critical is the accurately for the appraisal? Are they dimensioning off the drawings?

        Personally, I'd be inclined to use 1:25 and simply Label the drawing (appox) SCALE: 1/8" : 1'-0" (print acc. ± .01)

        john

        learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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          sonder
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          These would be plans for the architectural review committee, so accuracy of scale is very important. I am not changing sheet sizes at all. They are still D size. I was hoping for a simple setting in preferences, but I do not see any. Currently my work flow goes like this to achieve the scale change. After I set it up once, my other project went really fast - about 10 minutes.

          1. Draw a line from a point on the reference model, for insertion of the paper space items once re-scaled.
          2. Set the reference model to 1/8" = 1'-0"
          3. Left to right highlight all paper space items (including the line drawn in 1 above) and upscale by 2.5 (1"=20' up to 1/8" = 1'-0") The example I show is incorrect scale at 1" = 10'
          4. While the paper space items are highlighted, group them.
          5. Reset the insertion point of the highlighted group to the end point of the line drawn in 1 above.
          6. Shift highlighted group to point on the reference model where the line from 1 above originated prior to scaling.
          7. General clean-up
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