How do you set the scale in AutoCAD 2025? (100% Tested Aug 24)

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Do you know How to set the scale in AutoCAD?

Fitting your drawing into viewports in paper space is very important for visual communication across what needs to be built. You need to set the proper scale of the drawing.

Follow these steps to set the scale in AutoCAD

1. Go to the status bar at the bottom right corner of the workspace.

2. You can see the “Annotation scale of the current view”. If not, then click on ‘Customization’ (three horizontal lines) at last.

3. You can set the scale from here as per your requirement.

If your preferred drawing scale in AutoCAD is not available in the list, you can do the following steps

1. To add your scale, click on the scale, and then click on ‘Custom’.

2. After that, press “Add”. One dialogue box will open. You can set your scale.

For Paper space or viewport:

You can change the scale from the status bar as above after selecting viewport.

How to set a scale in AutoCAD while printing?

1. Click on the ‘Application menu’ (logo of AutoCAD) at the top left corner of the workspace.

2. Select the AutoCAD ‘Print’ option. One dialogue box will be open.

3. Or press ‘Ctrl+P’. The same dialogue box will be open.

4. Change the name ‘DWG to PDF’ or ‘AutoCAD to PDF’ from none. OR select ‘DWG to PNG OR JPG’ which you want as per your requirement.

5. Set paper size as per requirement.

6. Then select the “Plot Scale” as per your requirement as shown below.

7. Set paper area ‘Display, Limit or Window’. The display will plot the area as per the display.

8. Do a checkmark on the ‘Center the plot’.

9. Click on the ‘Preview’ to see the preview of the pdf or jpg which you have selected.

10. At last, click on ‘OK’ to convert DWG to PDF or JPG.

Give the location where you want to export it. Thank you for reading…

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