Re: [Inkscape-user] To Scale Drawing

This what I do (I always work metric)

Set landscape. Set all dimensions to mm. Enable and show grid, spacing 1mm, major lines to 10. Set a fairly aggressive nodes snap to the grid.

*ignore* page dimensions, giving an overall 1:1 drawing area of slightly over 810 x 690 mm.

If we are talking large objects then I mentally use a 10:1 scale factor giving a 10mm resolution and 8.1 x 6.9M drawing area.

I complete the drawing to this format and always keep the reference version saved like this.

For printing, I group everything, set the scaling on the toolbar to percentage then reduce both width and height by whatever factor makes a reasonable fit the the printing area, easily maintaining aspect ratio.