Drawing borders and title blocks

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Controlling the standard, the units, dimension, layering and other automatic options for AutoCAD Mechanical is handled in the options.

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You can apply a border based on scale, and have the drawing adapt to suit your desired printing scale.

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If you change your mind later, you can change the border and scale automatically with AutoCAD Mechanical.

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Using the AM Options command, you can go into the AM Standards tab and modify things like the standard that's used for your drawing.

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There's a broad variety of standards, what measurement unit will be used.

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And with all of the things that AutoCAD Mechanical does to assist you,

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you can preset the standards the color, the behavior of those objects in the field on the right.

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We also have the option of setting the scale for the model in this dialog.

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However, instead, we'll use AutoCAD Mechanical’s ability to scale the border,

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and the size of the text in the dimensions and annotation to fit the scale that we want.

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Starting the Title Block tool, you can select a desired paper format, set the Title Block,

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and either enter a scale manually, or use the calculation tool to let you know what scale the drawing would be to properly fit that border.

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Then the border can be placed into the drawing.

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You can enter your information and relocate the drawing in the border.

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Once this is done, you'll notice that all the dimensions and annotation changed size,

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in order to fit the desired printed scale and the desired printed text size.

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With a little bit of cleanup, your drawing is ready to print.

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However, if you decide that you want to change what the drawing scale is, that's a simple process as well.

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With a simple double click on the border, it will take you back to the dialog box where you can change the paper format and the scale.

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Once this is done, you'll relocate your drawing views again,

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and you'll see that all the dimension sizes have been updated to once again align the desired text size and the printed scale.