Hi everyone,

I've watched and followed several of the excellent video tutorials and manual. However, I'm a little confused about a few things.

I wish to import a scanned drawing of house/land plans so to help a friend build a garden path. I've imported the image via Insert->Reference Image. As the drawing has dimensions (in mm) I adjust the scale of the image by measuring the distance between two points on the plan, calculating the scaling factor so the Linear dimension produces the correct length values.

I then started to trace out the boundary fence and other buildings on the reference image. I also add the linear dimension lines. However, because I've scaled the reference image, all the text, lines and dimension lines I've added are far too small to see the distance values or the different types of lines properly. For example, the dashed lines appear as continues lines on the drawing as they are far too small. If I make the lines thicker, it makes no visual difference as the scaling is wrong. I can adjust the scaling of the text in the sheet view, but is this the correct way?

I've read the dimension tutorials, but don't quite understand what I'm doing wrong. There are different scaling factors for the text and lines, do I adjust those? Some of the text can be adjusted in the sheet view, but I want to see the lines and text in the model view properly.

How should the scaling/dimensions be set given one drawing maybe of a small mechanical part and another is a house?

Another question is how to set up the sheet view to have different scalings, such as 1:100, or 1:300?

Is there a detailed tutorial on drawing architectural draws?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers