# Imperial Drawing Scale?

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/imperial-drawing-scale/21465>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [September 18, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/imperial-drawing-scale/21465 "2022-09-18T03:51:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![seanoskea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@seanoskea](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/seanoskea)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/imperial-drawing-scale/21465/1 "2022-09-18T03:51:17Z")

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Looks like a great tool, however, us Yankies that are still stuck in the 19th century need to produce drawings in imperial scales like 1:24, 1:48 etc. Your drawing scales seem to only allow for base-ten scales. Is there an option to change the drawing scale somewhere?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![zoltan.k\_Shapr3D](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/zoltan.k_shapr3d/32/24322_2.png) [@zoltan.k\_Shapr3D](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/zoltan.k_Shapr3D)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 8:16am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/imperial-drawing-scale/21465/2 "2022-09-19T08:16:58Z")

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Hey! Not currently, but we are planning to open up anyway the scale setting to be more flexible. And a lots of thank you for your feedback on imperial. It’s very valuable for us.

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**Author:** ![seanoskea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@seanoskea](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/seanoskea)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/imperial-drawing-scale/21465/3 "2022-09-19T16:28:36Z")

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I teach at a university in the US and I’ve been looking for a replacement for Sketchup for my beginner designers. If I start them on Blender or the big CAD platforms on day one they get overwhelmed. But SU is the only tool that wants the students to pay ($55) for the academic licensee and my bosses won’t let me buy it because they know I can install Autodesk or Vectorworks for free. I thought I’d found the perfect solution when I came a cross Shapr until I went to make a drawing and found that it was only metric. I wish we’d switched to metric in the 70s with everybody else but you know us 'mericans. If it had standard AMSE scales, even just 1:24 and 1:48 I’d switch today. Or as it sounds like you’re saying, a user defined scale ratio, that would be even better. Looks like a great tool with a very beginner-used-friendly interface which is exactly what we need. And thanks for the easy academic license!