It is recommendable to set the inverted value of the intended print scale here, then you can leave the individual settings to the out of box value. General Scale in Current Drawing Preferences only defines the size of dimensions elements like text height, arrow size, extension lines. The print scale is solely defined in the Print Preview scale input box. The scaling will be applied so that the object falls in the border. I want to set the scale at 1/8=1” and when I draw a line, I want to specify the length of 32 inches and height of 64”.

With The above example I outlined, is there away to apply scale only to the object and not to the border? Basically leave the border as is and let the tooling manage the scale for the object. Draw the object to the actual size and determine scale by looking at print preview to make sure object renders correctly in A4 paper size. I think what I need to do is keep scaling to 1. But from what I am reading, it seems the preferred way to manage scaling in LibreCad is at print time. That’s how I normally handle scaling when drafting by hand. For example if I want to draw a box 32 x 64 inches I could use the scale 1/8=1”, so the actual size of the box on paper is 4 x 8. If I was drafting by hand I would take my ruler and determine a scale so that the object could be represented in the border area. The reason for the border is I want to create a template with a tittle block for all my drawings.

The border is 8 x 11, just a little smaller than A4 paper size.

I approached the process by drawing a border on the drawing area. I wanted to learn more about scaling in LibreCad. I have experience with drafting practices but the practices are old fashion, paper, ruler, t-square, pencil.

Libra scale sketch