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Changing dimensions

asomaninana78 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:24:54 GMT

I imported a drawing from a pdf to AutoCAD but the dimensions are in kilometers. how do i convert them to millimeters?

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cadffm — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:28:32 GMT

Hi,

command: SCALE

1 Kilometer is 1000000 Millimeter, that's the factor to scale your object(s)

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asomaninana78 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:34:49 GMT

sure but how do i do it. because when i export it to revit it tells me that the dimensions are too big to work with

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pendean — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:00:58 GMT

@asomaninana78 wrote:
sure but how do i do it. because when i export it to revit it tells me that the dimensions are too big to work with

So you have a REVIT import problem: ask in the REVIT forums on how to fix that.

In AutoCAD, open a DWG file with it's DWGUNITS command settings set to mm first before you re-import your PDF: I suspect your initial mistake was you started with a kilometer DWG file. OR you seriously have a REVIT import problem, again, to be solved in the REVIT forums.

HTH