Yet another scale question
Brand new CC3 customer; literally bought it yesterday and this is the first day I'm playing around with it in earnest.
As an exercise I am performing a conversion of one of my GM's overland maps for the campaign that I play in. The map that I am converting represents an area that is 1000 miles on a side. I would like one unit to represent 1 mile.
I used the default CC3 template to set up my map. When I went to change the units, I used a Custom unit of 1 unit = 63360 inches (1 mile). Now my background texture is completely blank, I'm thinking because massively scaled up the background texture. When I try to put a symbol down, nothing happens. Help!
I'm reading all I can about CC3 in the meantime, but I understand that it's far easier to set the scale before any drawing starts than afterward. Am I just not going to be able to use a scale of 1 unit = 1 mile, or is there some trick I'm not understanding? If you post, please assume that I am computer savvy but know virtually nothing about CC3.
As an exercise I am performing a conversion of one of my GM's overland maps for the campaign that I play in. The map that I am converting represents an area that is 1000 miles on a side. I would like one unit to represent 1 mile.
I used the default CC3 template to set up my map. When I went to change the units, I used a Custom unit of 1 unit = 63360 inches (1 mile). Now my background texture is completely blank, I'm thinking because massively scaled up the background texture. When I try to put a symbol down, nothing happens. Help!
I'm reading all I can about CC3 in the meantime, but I understand that it's far easier to set the scale before any drawing starts than afterward. Am I just not going to be able to use a scale of 1 unit = 1 mile, or is there some trick I'm not understanding? If you post, please assume that I am computer savvy but know virtually nothing about CC3.
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Delete the symbol in Symbols -> Symbol Manager, then click on Zoom Extents again.
I just use the 1000x 800 mile template, so 1 unit is equal to one mile. Or use the overland map wizard and enter 1000 and 1000 for the height and width of the map.
The big secret is that the underlaying CAD engine cannot properly handle drawings that are many miles large, so CC3 must cheat a little to pull that off. The result is that the map unit box report inches, but the map itself behaves like everything is in miles.
Thanks a lot for the answers. I'll take your advice and leave the Units dialog alone.