Scaling a floor plan wrong led me to a time-saving AutoCAD tool

I was rushing through a residential blueprint last week and set the scale incorrectly. When I printed it, everything was off, and I had to redo hours of work. But while fixing it, I stumbled upon the 'scale list' manager that lets you save presets. Now I use it for all my projects, and it's a game-changer. Has anyone else found similar features hidden in plain sight?

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green.taylor7mo ago

My office recycling bin is full of wrong-scale prints from that same hidden gem.

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shanefisher7mo ago

Honestly @green.taylor, I used to think that place was perfect, but my own stack of mis-sized models changed my mind fast.

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emma6247mo ago

Started doing a 10% test print of just the base before the whole thing, lol. Catches scaling issues every time and saves so much filament. That trick from an old forum post turned my fail stack into actually cool prints. A quick waste of ten minutes beats a whole wasted print any day.

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