olyconstruction Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Hi Chiefs, I hope this not a misuse of this forum, but I have a PDF here and I would like to know if it is in scale at ARCH D, I would check it out but I just ran out of yellow ink, and now I cant even print black and white until I replace it. An engineer is working on this and he claims it is out of scale, this is my new PDF, and I think I did it right. If anyone can confirm this, they will be added to my list of exceptional humans. Thank you so much for the help! AB BYRONE - APPROVED FOR ESTIMATING - 11-1-16 - ARCH D.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzira Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 ARCH D is 24x36. Your notes call out based on 22x34. I can print a page or 2 at 24x36 but I am not sure if this is what you want? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 I think he was talking about a different scale problem. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenoeightspot Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 The PDF is NOT to scale. The 30'-0" dim. scales 29'-5". Check your settings and reprint to PDF. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkMc Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 I measured at 1/4 scale in BlueBeam at enough places to satisfy-attached is marked up in red-ONLY one came out wrong- the deck where it is called out at 30'7 measures 30'6. Everything else measures correctly. I get the same for that one dimensions after converting to dwg and scaling the drawing up in Turbo Cad. Edit to add- I also converted to DWG with the same results though didn't check as many. To get to model space in CAD the drawings have to be scaled up ; IF the deck measurement is used to determine how much to scale up then someone would say that the scale is off since that also measures incorrectly in CAD. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Always print to scale and never fit to page. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyconstruction Posted November 2, 2016 Author Share Posted November 2, 2016 Alan: The reason the notes are off like that is because I usually publish to 22x34 so I can scale back down to 11x17. The reason I need ARCH Dis because that is the scale my engineer wants to print at. William: Thank you for checking it out, I am just curious though why Mark says it is in scale for the most part. According to his mark up that dimensiopn shows 30' Mark: Thank you very much, your work makes me think I am on the right track. I printed the document 50% on 11x17 and it scaled perfectly, so it should print to scale at arch d as well, just with a larger border. Perry: I am pretty sure I had it set "to scale" but I am not sure. This is my new one, this is the one that scales at half. it should just be a 22x34 title block inside an arch D sheet. Let me know if it is better or worse if you can, thanks alot for the help, I really do appreciate it very much! BYRONE - APPROVED FOR ESTIMATING - 11-2-16 -ARCH D.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenoeightspot Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Alex, I printed sheet 4 from your new PDF and the dimensions in both directions scale smaller then the stated dims. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkMc Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Measuring it as is in pdf with Bluebeam Revu, at 1/4"=1ft, I get the same results as before. ONLY the one dimension on the deck is off. I can't attest to what may happen with printing, but I always print (or in the case of larger stuff have printed) as Perry says, to scale. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 I set my sheet size to Arch-D before printing to PDF and I select "To Scale". If you have your Layout set up that way it should work fine. It's not a bad idea to have a full 24x36 outline boundary in the Layout on Page 0. Your Border can be inside that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 the print shops usually recommend a 1/4" border to avoid losing stuff at the edges so whatever your desired print size put a border on Page 0 1/4" inside that Lew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyconstruction Posted November 3, 2016 Author Share Posted November 3, 2016 I am not sure what is going on still. I will have my ink sooner than later, and the engineer I am working with said he could work off the scaled 11x17 for now. It is still concerning though. Thanks for printing Mr. Page, I guess that is why you got the name, right? Seriously though I appreciate it. I will just have to see for myself what happens with my plotter. Thank you Mark for checking it out with Bluebeam review, I have never used that program before but I think I will check it out, it sounds like it is super handy for checking PDFs. Yoda, I have the sheet set to ARCH D and I always publish to scale, so I think it has to be something with the plotter settings. Than you for suggestion I do. Lew: I started using the border a little while ago when I had to reformat my template to fit on ANSI D. Right now there is a 2" border because of the offset of ARCH D and ANSI D. Do you know if the Layout border effects the way things are published to PDF, or if it affects printing? I thought it was just for a reference during layout setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 I measured at 1/4 scale in BlueBeam at enough places to satisfy-attached is marked up in red-ONLY one came out wrong- ...... Hi Mark, as usual, I am late to the party..... I just bought BLUEBEAM, it looks like a great PDF viewer...... I assume you like it a bunch...... do you have any issues with it or would you say that it is the best you have seen to date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkMc Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Hi Mark, as usual, I am late to the party..... I just bought BLUEBEAM, it looks like a great PDF viewer...... I assume you like it a bunch...... do you have any issues with it or would you say that it is the best you have seen to date? Viewer-printer, markup, measure, fix, resize, hide layers, sign, move copy, take snapshots, insert anything, I could go on-takes a bit to realize just everything it can do for you. (you may want to look into printing templates for your title 24 stuff?). I have Revu Standard about 6 years now. Before that used EVERY free pdf printer and utility, had full Ntiro and Foxit and a leftover Adobe Distiller. With BB, I kept maintenance support for the first year to get one upgrade, but don't now. I just pay to upgrade every couple of years, added a second license last year. I can't understand why every professional in the construction industry doesn't spring a few bucks for it. I'm forever trying to get contractors and architects to get it, had one client I was going to buy it for. (might make more use of "Studio" but I have a basecamp account) Issues? no annotation sets wish Chief supported it with layers and U3D... Chiefs pdf print can produce a slightly smaller file size than what I get with the my settings (but shrinks as need) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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