Scaling Issues!

[emycko]

Hello, 

I am currently working in AutoCAD 2015.  My company has recently gone international and I haven't worked much with Metric.  I need to find the scale of a design that was sent over to me so I can scale to match my current scale.  Basically, I would open the CAD file from the client and clipboard copy & paste the blocks and settings over to the clients CAD.  The issue is my blocks are way larger than the clients.  I don't really understand scale as much as I should and it give me a headache dealing with it.  Is there a "lazy" way of getting the two drawings to match scales?

Thank you in advance

[kentr8]

1"=2.54cm

[conormccartney3897]

There are two types of metric that my company and I deal with on a regular basis. US metric, for US government jobs which is the exact conversion or "soft" metric, 1"=25.4mm. And Real, or International metric, which the rest of the world uses which is "Hard" metric, 1"=25mm, 12"=300mm, 24"=600mm, etc.

[hmahaffey]

the quickest way to see if you can scale the clients drawings to yours is to insert their drawing into yours, then invoke the align command.  select 2 points that align asks you for, right click,  and then when it asks "Scale objects based on alignment points" select yes.

then just test the dimensions with the distance command (or a dim command, whatever you are familiar with) to see if the align scaled the drawing to yours.

[kentr8]

you got your hard and soft mixed up there conormccartney