In the post we will walk through exactly how to insert a dynamic scalebar that can be linked and update automatically based on your viewport scale in the AutoCAD Map 3D toolset. Several years later the Metric bill was either repealed or ignored. In today post and video I get to share another great feature from the Map 3D Toolset that is now included with the AutoCAD Subscription. He said “Is there anyway you could produce two new drawings – one Imperial and one Metric? We’ll pay whatever it costs” And they did. “We’re looking at your drawing but its too cluttered to comprehend.” I reminded him that that was exactly what I had told him. Several months went by and I got a call from the fellow who ordered the work. We performed exactly as directed and mailed off the original and the required number of prints. I warned them that the drawing was going to be too cluttered and busy to comprehend, but they insisted, demanding 1 foot contours as well as 1 meter contours. In this Autocad tutorial, I will show you to scale your project or drawing to a specific scale. The State had just passed some “Go Metric” law, and was requiring that everything on drawings be shown in both Imperial and Metric Units (The thinking was that this would make it easy for us to move into the metric world). I had a job about 20 years ago for our State Board of Regents, who was purchasing a city block to expand their University.
