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Scale the drawing such that the rectangle that is drawn to represent the sub panel fits the drawing borders.

Not exactly sure yet. I purchased the "Autocad Electrical 2012 for Electrical control designers" written by Sham Tickoo of Purdue University. It is an excellant book. But it doesn't cover some particulars like this!

 

Thanks for you repsonce, in a short time ( I hope) I will post the correct methodology for drawing/object scaling in Acad Electrical.

 

Kind Regards,

You draw or use component drawn at scale 1 and set a zoom in the paper space ( in different viewports if different scales ) to have them entering in the sheet dimension that you want to use ( may be US 11""x8.5" or US 17"x11" in your case ).

model space and paper space may be difficult to understand but you can do that example :

Draw a rectangle of 11"x8.5" in the model space.

Make some copies of it, scale the copies at different exact scales and open viewports in the paper space dimension 11"x8.5" + zooms to set the diffrent scales on that different rectangles ( open the viewport, Zoom 1/your scale XP or exact Zoom on the extremities of the rectangles ).

Please tell us if it's OK or if the concept is not applicable to your AutoCAD Electrical or else...