When the drawings you create contain real-world objects that are larger than the printed page, such as the furniture in an office, you need to draw to scale. This article explains how you can …

Training: If your Microsoft Visio drawing contains real-world objects that are larger than the printed page, change the drawing scale. See how in this online video.

To create your own scale, click Custom scale, and then type a scale. (When you first insert a CAD drawing into a Visio page, Visio assigns it a custom scale so that it fits on the page.)

Describes how to change or resize the drawing page in Visio. You can use the CTRL key and mouse or the Page Setup dialog box to resize the drawing page in Visio.

Visio includes floor plan templates and shapes for creating scaled building and architectural diagrams, and can import AutoCAD drawings.

In Visio, the drawing page size and printer paper size are set separately. In many diagram templates, the drawing page size expands automatically if you extend the diagram past the …

If you want Visio’s drawing scale to match the drawing scale of an imported CAD file, then you’ll want to follow these steps to prepare for the import.

To enlarge the drawing to print across multiple sheets of paper, click Fit to, and then type the number of pages across and down. Look at the preview to see if your drawing page and …

You can draw shapes to the exact size you want by using the Draw Shape tool in Visio.

You can import an AutoCAD drawing into a Visio diagram, and then overlay shapes to give it more meaning. Generally, here’s how you import: Click Insert > CAD Drawing. Then select the …