Scaling??

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

 

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

 

Here is an example of an alignment sheet.

http://www.eykamp.com/gistools/alignmentsheets/index.htm

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.