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 Electronic paper: Now we draw everything full size and then tell the PLOT command to grow or shrink things accordingly. This approach is much easier because we never have to translate sizes. ssss1–ssss1 show you how AutoCAD now makes text and dimension sizing extremely simple.

“Okay,” you’re saying, “I understand that I need to print my drawings at a scale acceptable to the printer and discipline I work in. But when I’m drawing stuff full size, when do I need to worry about the scale factor?” Grab yourself a nice mug of cocoa and settle down ’round the fire because I’m going to tell you. By now you know (because I’ve told you so) that you draw real things full size, but drawings contain other things that are not real, such as text, dimensions, hatch patterns, title blocks, dash-dot linetypes, and so forth. And those nonreal things need to be legible on your plotted drawing.

Say, for example, you draw a plan of your big garage, and now you want to plot it on an 11-x-17-inch sheet of paper. No problem; just tell the PLOT command to scale everything down by a scale factor of 1:24, which architects would commonly represent as 1/2″=1′0″.