How To Change Sheet Scale In Solidworks

I came beyond a very interesting issue recently (affecting some users starting in SOLIDWORKS 2020 and later on) and take a solution should you come beyond it equally well. One of our customers was having an issue with section views non scaling properly in their drawings, but this event merely happened for certain sheet scale sizes. If the sheet was scaled 1:2 there were no bug. If the canvass was scaled ane:v or 1:x, the department view would be scaled smaller than it should exist even though the Parent Scale option was selected. In the example below, we see that the section view calibration should be 1:five just like the original view and the Parent Scale option is selected. The upshot though is that the section view is scaled to 1:l. That is off past an club of magnitude!

Parent Calibration selected in the paradigm below.

After clicking ok the section view shrinks to 1:fifty scale, paradigm is shown beneath.

We have identified something is off, so how practice nosotros ready it? We start by saving and closing all of our open files in SOLIDWORKS. And so nosotros close SOLIDWORKS. Next, we open up Windows Explorer and navigate to the following folder Windows (C:) > Program Files > SOLIDWORKS Corp > SOLIDWORKS > lang > english language

Or copy and paste the default extension:

C:\Programme Files\SOLIDWORKS Corp\SOLIDWORKS\lang\english

Y'all may notice in the image below that my location says SOLIDWORKS Corp 2020 instead of SOLIDWORKS Corp. This is considering I have more than one version of SOLIDWORKS installed on my machine and need to differentiate between them.

Discover the .txt file name drawingscales.txt and open it in Notepad.

Now, look at the sheet scales listed in the certificate. This list shows all the default sheet scales currently in SOLIDWORKS. You may notice the sheet calibration you chose is missing from the list. We volition add together the custom/missing sheet scale sizes directly into the document. By doing this, the sheet scales we simply added will exist available in the default sheet scales list moving forward. Make sure to use the same syntax as the residuum of the document when adding sheet scales. In one case these sizes accept been added to the advisable standard (ANSI, ISO, etc) we will and then save the document. IMPORTANT e'er save!

Now close Notepad.

Open SOLIDWORKS. Open the drawing that you were just working on. At present utilise your section view.

Screenshot of Property Manager & section view below.

Now identify your section view and notice that it is scaled properly this time, paradigm below.

Job well done! You take successfully addressed your section view scaling consequence and added additional sheet scales to your default list.

NOTE: The drawingscales.txt file was introduced starting in SOLIDWORKS 2020. You will not find it in prior releases.

James Reeher
Awarding Engineer
Computer Aided Engineering science, Inc.

Source: https://www.cati.com/blog/2021/04/how-do-i-fix-my-scaling-issues-with-solidworks-drawings/

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