HowTo: Symmetric border in paper-space (ACad 2008)?

Dear subscribers

I’m currently trying to help my girlfriend’s younger sister with a
school homework in AutoCad, they are using AutoCad 2008. I’m not very
experienced in AutoCad, I only have basic skills so we’re in a bit of
trouble.

Our problem is that the printed drawing is supposed to have a frame/
border around it with a symmetric margin, e.g. 10 mm. Our approach has
been to draw a rectangle in paper-space but to get it to look right on
paper we have resorted to a trial-and-error approach, i.e. draw a
rectangle, print, measure and repeat and obviously there is probably a
better way to do this.

So, my basically my question is, how do I create a symmetric border in
paper-space for a drawing so that it’s symmetric when the drawing is
printed, with a given margin of e.g. 10 mm?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Kind regards, Ola Theander

 

Basically you should right click on the work layout tab and goto page setup
manager the choose paper size and printer then draw a rectangle on the
dotted line in the paper space not model space then ofset it 10 mm then
print it to see if the rectangle is equal to the border.
Or in the model space draw an 8.5 x 11 rectangle offset it 10 mm and in the
model space open up a view pan and until its centered reopen page setup
manager and make sure scale is set 1=1 do a test print to see the results.

To align the square just draw lines fron corners to corners and in both
recatangle and square and the move the objet on the center lines, the erase
the cross lines.

Hope that helps


Regards

Rob

Dear subscribers

I’m currently trying to help my girlfriend’s younger sister with a
school homework in AutoCad, they are using AutoCad 2008. I’m not very
experienced in AutoCad, I only have basic skills so we’re in a bit of
trouble.

Our problem is that the printed drawing is supposed to have a frame/
border around it with a symmetric margin, e.g. 10 mm. Our approach has
been to draw a rectangle in paper-space but to get it to look right on
paper we have resorted to a trial-and-error approach, i.e. draw a
rectangle, print, measure and repeat and obviously there is probably a
better way to do this.

So, my basically my question is, how do I create a symmetric border in
paper-space for a drawing so that it’s symmetric when the drawing is
printed, with a given margin of e.g. 10 mm?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Kind regards, Ola Theander

 

Hi Rob

Thank you for your answer. We'll try it out.

/Ola

 

Dear subscribers

I’m currently trying to help my girlfriend’s younger sister with a
school homework in AutoCad, they are using AutoCad 2008. I’m not very
experienced in AutoCad, I only have basic skills so we’re in a bit of
trouble.

Our problem is that the printed drawing is supposed to have a frame/
border around it with a symmetric margin, e.g. 10 mm. Our approach has
been to draw a rectangle in paper-space but to get it to look right on
paper we have resorted to a trial-and-error approach, i.e. draw a
rectangle, print, measure and repeat and obviously there is probably a
better way to do this.

So, my basically my question is, how do I create a symmetric border in
paper-space for a drawing so that it’s symmetric when the drawing is
printed, with a given margin of e.g. 10 mm?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Kind regards, Ola Theander

Create a new drawing.
Draw a rectangle the size of the plotted sheet with the lower left corner at
0,0,0 on layer 0
Inside that border draw what you want for your border on the plotted sheet
on layer 0.
Save that drawing as border.dwg.

When you set up your paperspace layout on other drawngs.
Set the plot origin offset to 0,0
Insert the drawing border.dwg into paperspace at 0,0 on any layer you wish.

Bob