When I scale my drawing to 1:2 of course the dim. is scales with it so I need to put in the correct dim. manually . This action causes the next dim. to be the number I previously entered. Can this be avoided, so that the dim. I pull out is the proper one for the drawing even though I am going to change it ? Also what has happened when I finished the dwg. I opened a new one in 3D mode ,did what I wanted, ran into a problem wanted to check the dim. and got the amount from my previous dwg that I had finished. This is not cool!!!!!! What can I do to reset the dimensions back to give me the correct ones?

Maybe you can try to use the draw view vs scaling the dimensions with the geometry.

Create a single draw view, copy your geometry before dimensions are added activate/select the draw view then edit--> paste
then dimension inside draw views

You can then scale this and dimensions are taken care of.

To add more geometry to the view copy and paste, the existing geometry will update in the view as you change the original.

Regards

Jason

Ok so I have been for the last 30 min. reading and looking for a way to make a draw view. I read in the user guide to open a paper space view and dwg on that so dim.'s are transferred with out scaling, can't find that either. I tried to find out what you mentioned above in your post. I opened a new drawing and tried it that way in case that is what you meant but I am not having any luck.
Can you pretend this is "VIA CAD for Dummies" and send a video or a step by step. If you are unable thanks any way.

Maybe this post can help you a little bit:

http://forum.punchcad.com/showp...php?p=21444&postcount=10

there are some tricks to found on model to sheet to use it correctly, Jason point at that you can make an empty viewport, (one of the icons on tool pallet is the right one to do this), after you made it, select the viewport, right click or click on the left upper corner so configure (click on properties) like render mode, scale, quality and so, and, be sure to check the "2d objects on view" option, that i think it is your case, then, to add geometry to that viewport just copy and paste what you want to be included on it.

**** important: view ports are TOP VIEW oriented, so be sure to have the display oriented this way.

Luis G.