I've been using CorelDraw for many years for creating my scale drawings, but with my old Windows machine nearing the end of its useful life, decided to move to Inkscape on my iMac.
The problem I'm having is setting a scale for my drawings. I want to be able to create lines, boxes, circles etc with the dimesions automatically scaled to, say 1:50, so that if I draw a line 300mm long, its actually given in the dimension box as 15 metres, as I can do in CorelDraw, but there seems to be no way of setting this in Inkscape - unless I've not found it yet. There seem to be quite a few things hidden away in Inkscape, it's not the most user-friendly app that I've come across!
I do this by using a 1:1 scale drawing. However, this requires using massive fonts, and the font dialog boxes work poorly at that scale.
I too would appreciate a global scale, and in particular a "dimension line" object where the displayed dimension value can be automatic, manually overridden to given units, and separately positioned.
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I've been using CorelDraw for many years for creating my scale drawings, but with my old Windows machine nearing the end of its useful life, decided to move to Inkscape on my iMac.
The problem I'm having is setting a scale for my drawings. I want to be able to create lines, boxes, circles etc with the dimesions automatically scaled to, say 1:50, so that if I draw a line 300mm long, its actually given in the dimension box as 15 metres, as I can do in CorelDraw, but there seems to be no way of setting this in Inkscape - unless I've not found it yet. There seem to be quite a few things hidden away in Inkscape, it's not the most user-friendly app that I've come across!
Not a current feature. You can suggest it here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues.
IIRC, units like meters & feet can be exposed to the UI. (They were previously available with the standard release.)
I would probably work 1:1 and scale a copy for printing, etc.
I do this by using a 1:1 scale drawing.
However, this requires using massive fonts, and the font dialog boxes work poorly at that scale.
I too would appreciate a global scale, and in particular a "dimension line" object where the displayed dimension value
can be automatic, manually overridden to given units, and separately positioned.