You might want to check out this site:
http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?...icseen#msg4266. I
posted a SmartShape scale symbol. Yours to use if you like it.

Wapperdude



"larry" wrote:

nope...didn'tchoose metric. Actaully got the 10' dimension to make the scale
work - not sure how you foudn that magic number thought. However, those
splits of 3/5, 1/2 etc. make absolutely no sense for an architectural
drawings - have to wind up making a manual graphci scale as I've done in the
past. But as a test, I tried a new sheet, set the scale at 1-1/2" = 1'-0 and
couldn't come close to finding the right lenght. This just doesn't work
right....or did I miss somehting again?

"WapperDude" wrote:

Seems to work OK. Just to make sure of the obvious, you did not choose the
metric annotation stencil?

The scale symbol is a little weird in design. It has indicated values at
both ends, the middle (1/2 way point) and then at 3/5 of the 1/2 way point.
So, at your 1/4" scale, the most meaningful displayed results are for a scale
whose length goes to 10'. Then you get numbers: 0, 3, 5, & 10.

HTH
Wapperdude


"larry" wrote:

anyone get the scale symbol (on the annotation shape sheet) to make sense. I
have a page wtih a scale at 1/4" = 1'-0". I can't get the increments/numbers
on the scale to come anywhere close to anyting logical in relation to 1/4"
scale