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I am attempting to x-ref a building model that was drawn in 2013 MEP in a Civil3D drawing that contains the site surface. When I x-ref my building model into the site drawing and attempt to align and scale the building some of my walls become broken and missing. I have a feeling this is a scaling issue because on my site my north wall should be 24' long. The wall is 24' long in MEP, but that same 24' from Civil3D is only a 2' line segment in MEP. Has anyone tried to do what I am doing here? Any ideas as to how to remedy this? I have tried scale the building model down in MEP first and it causes all kinds of problems with the door and window objects. I tried adjusting the x-ref scale prior to adding the x-ref and it does the same thing. Thoughts? Ideas? Thanks!
I have no familiarity with MEP. However based on other experience in Civil 3D. I'd suggest creating a copy of the MEP file and scaling the building by 1/12. Then Xref that file.
I should have read your post more closely. What does the lower right of your Xref insert dialog box look like. There should be scaling information there. Also. What do you have your INSUNITS variable set at?
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Do you have the AutoCAD Civil 2014 Object Enabler for MEP installed?
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Here's a link to the AutoCAD Civil 2013 Object Enabler
It's strange. By looking at the Xref Insert dialog box I can tell that Civil knows it's in inches. But it doesn't try to scale it on insertion. I'll assume that even if you changed the scale factor to 0.08333. You would still have the problem caused by scaling.
You do have the Civil drawing set to Feet?
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@paulrdeyo86 wrote:
Yes, drawing is set up in feet and decimal inches.
If I'm correct that would mean that you have set it to Engineering in the Drawing Units dialog. That doesn't work with Civil 3D.
That's the only way you'd get Decimal Inches. Instead use AECDWGSETUP to set the units. It will only allow setings compatible with Civil. Check the Ambient Setting for the drawing in the Toospace also.
I can't say that will fix your problem. As I said in my first post. I'm only guessing form my experience with Civil
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OK. Wrong drawing. I thought you were referring the the Civil 3D drawing.
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OK. Then I'm sorry to say I'm out of ideas. Are you on Subscription? You might want to start a Service Request on this.
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Alright, I will get with our Network admin and see what we can do. Thanks for trying though 
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