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How to display the drawing scale in decimal or fraction format in Creo Parametric

Modified: 14-Nov-2025   


Applies To

  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire 2.0 to Wildfire 5.0
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4

Description

  • How to control the format of the scale display of the drawing?
  • Changing the drawing option view_scale_format from decimal to fraction has no effect
  • What is the appropriate value for DTL/drawing option view_scale_denominator?
  • Is it OK to define a large value like 1000 as the value of view_scale_denominator?
  • Set drawing option view_scale_format to fractional/ratio_colon/ratio_colon_normalized, but neither work
  • How to display drawing scale as 1:7?
  • How to change the view scale format from decimal to fraction or fraction to decimal?
  • The drawing scale (33:100) is not displayed as expected since the denominator of the drawing scale is too large
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