View Scale in Imperial

The extension allows to show the scale factor in imperial format in view title label. This works only when the model is created with imperial environment only.

How to Locate

Installers is available in warehouse as "View Scale in Imperial".

After installation, the 'View Scale in Imperial' is available in the 'application and components'.

 

Usage

Click the icon ‘ViewScaleInImperial’ from 'Application and Component' in model. There is a option to update all drawings or selected drawings, it updates all view titles inside the drawing. If view scale is changed or drawing re-created then we need to re-run this tool again to get the updated values. This won't work with model created in metric environments and gives the message for the same.

View Scale in Imperial Dialog

 

This dialog box contains following properties.
• Drawing Selection Mode
• Separator
• Add Text Option
• Font
• Font height
• Font Color

Drawing Selection Mode:

All	Process all drawing
Selected	Only selected drawing from drawing list

Separator:

=	ex: 1"=1'-0"
:	ex: 1":1'-0"

Add Text Option:

Update only	Only update the view title label if it contains view scale property or text available as like 1":1'-0"
Add Text	This adds view scale text even view scale property is not called in view title label

Fraction Scale:

This option is applicable when the value is below 1".

0 x/y"	Allow '0' prefix in output and this is a default conversion
x/y"	Remove '0' prefix in output

Actual:

This option is handle 0" in actual scale format.

1'-0"	This is default output and contains 0" as suffix
1'	Only shows feet values

Text Properties:

Text properties can be controlled through the Font, Height & Color textbox / combobox.