Some advice for a beginner

[Husky]

Hello jsm25 - welcome to the forum.

@jsm25

, the last time I produce a drawing was with paper and pen on the drawing board.

Excellent! That means you already know the drawing basics …

@jsm25

1. line types - if I select a different line type to continuous such as the centreline or.construction line I just see a continuous line it’s never showing the correct spacing.

Below Menu / View is a command called “Screenbased Linetypes”. Is that activated?

@jsm25

2. every time I dimension a drawing it’s too small to see and I have to adjust the sizing in the preferences is anyway to fix this as I’m always using scale drawings so be good to be to set some defaults.

You can preset the text hight below Edit / Drawing preferences / Dimension: Dimension Settings
If you work in Metric / mm you can put in 3.5 what means that a 1:1 scaled print has a 3.5 mm Dimension text hight.
If you intent to scale your printing to 1:50 or 1:75 then this value has to be 50 or 75 times bigger = 3.5x50 or 3.5x75.

@jsm25

3. I think of worked out how to have a title block in the library and then import it into the drawing as a block. If am working at a scale of say 1 to 50 and then have to resize it by 50. I’m okay with this and it works fine. What do I do if I need to change the scale to 1:75?

Note: Your drawing should always be drawn in 1:1! Scaling of the drawing is part of the print job!
Your title block / frame should also be drawn and saved in 1:1. Scaling is then part of the insert task regarding to the intended print scale!
e.g. you will print your drawing in 1:50 then you have to insert the title block 50 times bigger …