How to scale a PDF in AutoCAD while inserting or attaching? (89% Don’t know)

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Do you know How to scale a PDF in AutoCAD while inserting or attaching it?

1. First of all, set your workspace unit the same as the PDF unit.

2. And the first thing is, to give a proper scale in the dialogue box while inserting or attaching a PDF in the AutoCAD application.

3. But if your dimensions are not matching, then you can scale it properly by using the ‘scale command’.

4. Select the “Scale” command from the ‘Modify’ panel in the ‘Home’ tab.

5. Select the whole PDF to scale.

6. Then select one base point and select a “Reference” option from the command bar.

7. Specify the first point and last point of the reference line and give the actual length of that reference line as per the PDF. Press the “Enter key“.

8. Now all dimensions will match with PDF dimensions.

Know more about Scale commands:

Here is an image attached to understand the workings of the Scale command

Scale command is used to enlarge or reduce the size of the selected objects while keeping the proper proportion of objects after scaling.

It is a very useful command in AutoCAD.

So, We can scale our full drawing, any object, block, external imported drawings or images, or pdf by the Scale command while keeping the same drawing proportion after scaling.

We can also change the scale of the dimensions and texts by changing their scale from the properties.

We will learn it in the Annotation command.

AutoCAD scales the objects by the scale factor that you type, using the selected base point.

Numbers greater than 1 increase the object’s size and numbers smaller than 1 but greater than 0 decrease the object’s size.

Negative scale factors are invalid in this command.

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