Tool Guide

Scale Bars

Use Scale Bars to display the scales of eligible Drawings placed on a Layout. The tool collects the supported scales and arranges their bars together, avoiding unnecessary repeats.

At a glance

  • Choose which Drawings contribute through their scale-inclusion setting.
  • Combine repeated scales and arrange the resulting bars and values.
  • Refresh the bars after changing Drawing scales or eligibility.
Scale bars at two drawing scalesAn example of the tool’s output in Archicad.
Drawing eligibilityEnable the inclusion setting on the Drawings to read.

In the contributing Drawings, enable Include Scale in Autotexting and Indexes. This determines whether their scales are eligible for collection.

The tool reads supported effective scales from the eligible model Views. It uses the available bar types rather than generating a new bar for any arbitrary scale value.

Bar arrangement and refreshMatching scales are combined within the block.

Repeated scales are combined rather than drawing the same bar for every Drawing. Compatible bars can share a graphic with separate rows of values. Use the spacing and text settings to arrange the result.

Refresh after changing Drawing scales or the inclusion settings. If there are no qualifying scales, no bars are displayed. Resolve any source-read warning before relying on the collected result.