Lay-out doesn't scale right

[progvincent366869]

Hi,

I've got a drawing of a site, which is about 144 meter long, so 144000 mm to put it in autocad units. I drew it completely in millimeters, and made a new scale in the layout view 1:500, all my units are set to millimeters.

I would expect when chosing the scale 1:500 it would precisely fit on my paper, as 144000/500=288 and the longest side of an A4 paper is 297.
But somehow, when chosing the scale, things get seriously messed up...

My drawing is no longer recognizable at all as it is zoomed in way to far...
Any ID's what I'm doing wrong?

Also, when watching youtube video's about lay-out, I always see a little toolbar under the main frame (the one where your title stands) saying things like new viewport and page setup. Somehow it's not visible with me... How can I turn it on?

In attachment you can find my autocad file and some screenshots about my problem.

Thanks in advance!

Vincent

[cadtag]

have you run pagesetup on your layout, and defined the correct paper size?

[jaberwok]

Hi, welcome to AUGI.
Would you save the dwg file to an earlier version?

In the meantime, make sure the viewport is not locked then double-click in the viewport and type -

z [enter]
1/500xp [enter]
What happens?


edit - not immediately relevant but bear in mind that you will not be plotting to the full size of the paper.
297 - (say) 2x8 = 281.