Hot take: setting your drawing scale in model space is not always wrong

I keep seeing posts on here saying you should never draft in model space with the actual scale, always use annotative scaling. Been drafting for 12 years now, worked at a civil firm in Omaha where we did everything in model space at 1:1 for plan sets and I think people are overcomplicating it. Annotative scaling has its place, sure, but for simple site plans or details that don't change scale, setting up your text and dims in model space saves me tons of time. I just switch viewports and adjust the scale factor manually. No glitches, no weird layer issues. Has anyone else found annotative scaling to be more hassle than it's worth?

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aliceharris3d ago

Are you mainly doing stuff that never has to be repurposed at different scales?

faithpatel3d agoMost Upvoted

Oh man, I used to be totally against model space scaling too, I thought everyone should just switch to annotative and be done with it. But honestly, reading your post made me rethink everything. I tried it your way on a small project last week and it was so much simpler, no fighting with glitchy annotations or weird viewport settings. I guess I was just following the crowd without really testing what works best for each job. You have a good point that for certain simple drawings, keeping it old school saves more time than it costs.

ray5623d ago

Same here, @aliceharris, I stuck with model space scaling for years and it never let me down on simple jobs like that.