topic Exporting to CAD scale issue in Revit Architecture Forum

Exporting to CAD scale issue

csawyerM6DRT — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:16:17 GMT

Hi there! When exporting to CAD from Revit, the drawing is getting scaled down, so it is at a scale when opening in AutoCAD. I have checked my export units---snip attached of the current settings. Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

Re: Exporting to CAD scale issue

ToanDN — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:24:24 GMT

@csawyerM6DRT wrote:

Hi there! When exporting to CAD from Revit, the drawing is getting scaled down, so it is at a scale when opening in AutoCAD. I have checked my export units---snip attached of the current settings. Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

Scaled down to what? 90%, half, quarter?

Re: Exporting to CAD scale issue

csawyerM6DRT — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:31:17 GMT

Hi @ToanDN Thanks for the quick reply! It appears to be doing something like 1:10---so 10' in our drawing is coming up as 10" in CAD---see attached screen grab.

Thank you!

Re: Exporting to CAD scale issue

ToanDN — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:34:41 GMT

@csawyerM6DRT wrote:

Hi @ToanDN Thanks for the quick reply! It appears to be doing something like 1:10---so 10' in our drawing is coming up as 10" in CAD---see attached screen grab.

Thank you!

That is 1:12. What are you Project Units set to?

Re: Exporting to CAD scale issue

csawyerM6DRT — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:38:20 GMT

@ToanDN oh yes, you're correct! Attached are the current Project Unit settings.

Thank you,

Re: Exporting to CAD scale issue

ToanDN — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:43:21 GMT

@csawyerM6DRT wrote:

Attached are the current Project Unit settings.

No, I am asking for your Project Units settings, not Export settings. Look for it under Manage > Project Units.

Re: Exporting to CAD scale issue

csawyerM6DRT — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:53:55 GMT

Oh sorry about that, @ToanDN ---I attached the wrong image. here you go!

Re: Exporting to CAD scale issue

ToanDN — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:16:04 GMT

@csawyerM6DRT wrote:

Oh sorry about that, @ToanDN ---I attached the wrong image. here you go!

Nothing unusual.

Can you share the model?