Drawing Setup

Function

This command allows you to specify drawing parameters, including the plotting scale, size of symbols, label annotation size, and the angle mode.

• Specify English 1in=?ft or Metric 1m=?m as the unit mode to use. This affects the prompting and reports. When you are working on a drawing in English units, one unit equals one foot. In metric, one unit equals one meter.
• Specify the Horizontal Scale of the drawing. For example, if the horizontal scale is set to 50, then 1" = 50' is your drawing scale.
• The Symbol Plot Size value is a scaler that represents the size on the plot. The Drawing Units are determined by multiplying the scaler by the horizontal scale. In English mode the scaler represents the plotted size in inches. In Metric mode, this value is the plotted size in centimeters. The Drawing Units field shows the result of the Symbol Plot Size value (the scaler) multiplied by the horizontal scale.
• The Text Plot Size value is a scaler that represents the size on the plot. The Drawing Units are determined by multiplying the scaler by the horizontal scale. In English mode the scaler represents the plotted size in inches. In Metric mode, this value is the plotted size in centimeters. The Text Plot Size is not entered in Drawing Units. The Drawing Units field shows the result of the Text Plot Size value (the scaler) multiplied by the horizontal scale.
• The Line Type Scaler option sets the linetype scale by multiplying this scaler by the horizontal scale.
• Angle Mode-Bearing sets reporting to bearing mode for any of the inquiry commands. (Modifies the settings in the AutoCAD UNITS command.)
• Angle Mode-Azimuth sets reporting to north based azimuth mode for any of the inquiry commands. (Modifies the settings in the AutoCAD UNITS command.)
• Angle Mode-Gon sets reporting to gon mode for any of the inquiry commands. (Modifies the settings in the AutoCAD UNITS command.)
• Angle Mode-Other lets the user determine angle mode by using the AutoCAD UNITS command.
• The Set Paper button allows you to draw a rectangle on the screen that represents the edge of your paper. After you have set the horizontal scale, press the Set Paper button and the Set Paper dialog appears.





• The Layout option lets you specify landscape or portrait paper orientation. Landscape layout is where the width of the page is greater than the height of the page. Portrait layout is the opposite.
• The Paper Size option allows you to specify the paper size. The numbers in parenthesis represent drawing units and will be multiplied by the horizontal scale to determine the rectangle to be drawn. If you select the Other option, you will be prompted on the command line for the horizontal and vertical sizes of the paper.

Prompts (for Set Paper)

Pick or Type lower left corner point for border <(5000.00 5000.00 0.0)>: pick a point
Erase existing Set Paper boundary [<Yes>/No]? Y This prompt only appears if there is an existing paper boundary in this drawing.
Set Limits [Yes/<No>]? Y If you answer Yes to Set Limits, drawing limits are enabled, and AutoCAD restricts the coordinates you can enter to within the paper boundary. Drawing limits also determines the area of the drawing that can display grid dots, and the minimum area displayed by the Zoom All command on the View menu. To turn drawing limits off, type in LIMITS on the command line and set to Off.

Drawing Setup also sets the AutoCAD dimension scale (DIMSCALE) and linetype scale (LTSCALE) to the Horizontal Scale.

Pulldown Menu Location: Settings
Keyboard Command: setup
Prerequisite: None
File Names: \lsp\survset.lsp, \lsp\scadenvr.dcl