{"id":374,"date":"2007-08-08T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2007\/08\/08\/common-sense-cad-part-4\/"},"modified":"2008-04-26T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T23:41:42","slug":"common-sense-cad-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2007\/08\/common-sense-cad-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense CAD &#8211; Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">The Border<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have seen so many troubles because people got the border wrong.  It should be a very common sense kind of thing, but many complicate it beyond what is needed.<\/p>\n<p>First, draw the border full size in Model Space.  If it is to be 24&#8243; x 36&#8243;, then draw the trim lines exactly that size.  Use ORTHO lock to make them exact.  Use the Rectangle command to get them right.<\/p>\n<p>When you are done, plot the file from model space at 1:1.  Check the file with your scale on the hardcopy to verify that it is exact.<\/p>\n<p>Save the file.<\/p>\n<p>Now Xref the border file onto your sheet.<\/p>\n<p>The Border is Xrefed into Paper Space of your Sheet files.<\/p>\n<p>In the olden days it use to go in Model Space.  Back in the &#8220;stone age&#8221;.  You know, before Paper Space was invented.  Do not place the border in Model Space.   It now goes in Paper Space.<\/p>\n<p>Attach the file at 0,0,0.  Use a layer that you create &#8211; Not layer &#8220;0&#8221; or &#8220;defpoints&#8221;.  You did not create or own these layers.  They belong to Autodesk, not you.<\/p>\n<p>Do not scale the border when you attach it, larger or smaller.  Keep it at 1 to 1.  That is full size.  One inch on the border will be one inch on hard copy and when measured in CAD.<\/p>\n<p>LTSCALE should be set to &#8220;1&#8221; for plotting on all Sheet files.<\/p>\n<p>Some simple guidelines, but often not followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Border I have seen so many troubles because people got the border wrong. It should be a very common sense kind of thing, but many complicate it beyond what is needed. First, draw the border full size in Model Space. If it is to be 24&#8243; x 36&#8243;, then draw the trim lines exactly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,4],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cad-management","category-cad-standards","category-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}