Document measurement scaling

[Ntmoe]

Could a scale be specified for a document? There is a
nice option in MS Visio that allows a scale drawing to
be made, using , for example, actual bulding
measurements on a regular-sized sheet of paper.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've also thought this would be a great idea. I've looked
into doing this, very briefly. It would take some effort to
do, but I think it could definitely make Inkscape a lot more
useful for technical drawing.

Could you elaborate on your thoughts about how this should
work? For instance, what should the scale setting dialog
look like? What sorts of options would one like to have?
Maybe attach some screen captures of other applications with
this functionality. How do you think Inkscape should behave
if you change the scale of an existing drawing?

[Ntmoe (ntmoe)]

I use Visio 2002 often for technical drawing, and their
interface for specifing page scaling works well. In the page
setup dialog, there is a tab for drawing. There are options
for either 1:1 scaling, predefined scales that folks like
architects and engineers would use, and there is also a
custom scaling feature. You can input your own ratio using
units of cm, m, in, ft, pt, etc. For example, the scale
could be input as 10 in = 30 in, where 10 in. is the
measurement on the paper, and 30 in. is the measurement in
the physical world. Another neat feature on the drawing
scale tab is that the page size is shown using the scale
measurements. So if you're using an 8.5 in. x 11 in. sheet
of paper with a scale of 1 in = 10 in, the page size would
be shown as 85 in. x 110 in.

As for how inkscape should behave when using scaling, the
rulers would be adjusted to show the scale, so positioning
of objects and guides could be done using scale
measurements. Also, the sizes of pre-defined shapes are
enlarged or reduced according to scale.

With an existing drawing, I think that all the objects would
need to be enlarged or reduced to fit the new drawing scale.
There could be an option for this when doing the conversion,
but I would think that most people would want everything on
the drawing to change to correspond to the new scale.

[Bug Importer (bug-importer)]

My request differs a little bit but I request a measurement
tool to get the measures of lines, shapes,... Would be very
usefull to get informations about maps. Would be cool if the
meamurement ratio(1:1m) and the extension would be
customizable...

[Prokoudine (prokoudine)]

Originator: NO

Please check Measure Path extension available since 0.44. The version in
0.45 hass improved with several new parameters added (units, scale,
precision, distance from path). Please tell us if it fits the bill or not
:)

[Vladimir Savic (vladimir-firefly-savic)]

We now have useful measurement tool in .49. Why not reusing it for scaled readings? All we need is a tool's option for defining scale ratio (or maybe even making ration a document property).

[grey tomorrow (gtomorrow)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug, I've manually migrated it to Inkscape's new bug tracker on GitLab, and closed it here.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at
https://inkscape.org/report .

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/3682
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/greytomorrow