Scaling??

[Fontaine]

heres 2 quick questions if you could please help:

1) If you have a scale of 1:75 and you also have text that you want to be 2.5, what size text would you use on screen for this to print that size text?

2) you have a pipe that is 75 km long, the scale is 1:1000, what length do you draw the pipe onscreen?

[FL Knifemaker]

Dammit man!! I don't come here to think!!

[wazzel]

Originally Posted by Fontaine

heres 2 quick questions if you could please help:

1) If you have a scale of 1:75 and you also have text that you want to be 2.5, what size text would you use on screen for this to print that size text?

2) you have a pipe that is 75 km long, the scale is 1:1000, what length do you draw the pipe onscreen?

If you are going to print at 1:75 the text would have to be 2.5*75. That is if you scaled up your border 75x to fit a drawing that was actual size. If you scaled down the drawing to 75x to fit in a standard sized border then the text needs to be 2.5.

75km=75000m

Scaled down to 1:1000 the pipe still needs to be 7.5m. I think you need bigger paper.

What are you drawing? Sounds like a pipeline. To do it in an industry standard way you should do multiple, partally over laping drawings with a key map that showes the overall route and each sheet showes the details. You will end up with several sheets. All the sheet should show the topography with elevations

[wazzel]

Here is an example of an alignment sheet.

http://www.eykamp.com/gistools/align...eets/index.htm

http://www.newcenturysoftware.com/mapgallery/index.html

[Fontaine]

anks for the info! the piping is in auto cad, this is actually my last semester dealing with autocad so im kinda pleased.

[wazzel]

Learn soild works or inventor. I get more use out of the 3d modeling programs than just flat ACAD.

[Fontaine]

my role after i graduate will not be in audocad, ill be one of the guys making sure drilling operations are going smoothly on oil rigs, or designing tools for them. more or less making oil rigs safer.

[wazzel]

Originally Posted by Fontaine

my role after i graduate will not be in audocad, ill be one of the guys making sure drilling operations are going smoothly on oil rigs, or designing tools for them. more or less making oil rigs safer.

You will be surprised how much you still use drafting tools. I have been at this since 1995 and I still use autocad almost daily. Often it is just to do a quick check on one of our vessels or what not. In the time it would take me to explain what I need to our designer I could do it myself. I do a lot of my desiging of parts in solidworks. It goes a lot quicker if I do it myself. Usually I do the model and pass the model of to the designer to detail out.

[Fontaine]

Originally Posted by wazzel

You will be surprised how much you still use drafting tools. I have been at this since 1995 and I still use autocad almost daily. Often it is just to do a quick check on one of our vessels or what not. In the time it would take me to explain what I need to our designer I could do it myself. I do a lot of my desiging of parts in solidworks. It goes a lot quicker if I do it myself. Usually I do the model and pass the model of to the designer to detail out.

what area do you work in, or what did you graduate with? if you dont mind me asking.

[wazzel]

Originally Posted by Fontaine

what area do you work in, or what did you graduate with? if you dont mind me asking.

I graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University. I work in subsea construction. I run the whole gambit of things that are needed. I am the only engineer on staff and we need about four right now.

I design parts for ROV's, tools we need to install equipment for our clients in up to 4000m of water, develope procedures for doing said work, go offshore to supervise the same, etc, etc, etc.

[Fontaine]

Originally Posted by wazzel

I graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University. I work in subsea construction. I run the whole gambit of things that are needed. I am the only engineer on staff and we need about four right now.

I design parts for ROV's, tools we need to install equipment for our clients in up to 4000m of water, develope procedures for doing said work, go offshore to supervise the same, etc, etc, etc.

do you guys travel around to colleges looking for engineers or are you just content at the moment? lol

[wazzel]

Originally Posted by Fontaine

do you guys travel around to colleges looking for engineers or are you just content at the moment? lol

We do not have the staff to do that right now. I am neck deep in three projects right now and will be out of the country quite a bit for the rest of the year.