Inserting blocks at scale

[whitney_jeff]

I have a dynamic block, sheet title, consisting of a line, several attributes and a circle.  In the sheet title block itself, everything is the correct size for 1:1  paper space, and also in the block editor.

When I insert it in a drawing in paper space, scale factor 1, it shows up at about 12 times too big.  Both files have insertion units set at inches.  INSUNITS set at 0 or 1 makes no difference.

Any ideas?

[imadHabash]

Hi,

i suggest to check if your block is Annotative object. annotative object will behave different if the annotation scale ( status bar) are not 1/1 and it will follow the current scale.

Regards.

[user181]

Is the block you are inserting into paper space a block that is within the same drawing or is it a separate drawing that you are inserting?

[whitney_jeff]

Thanks, it is not annotative.

[whitney_jeff]

separate drawing - dragging and dropping.

Block attached - bear in mind please that I did not create this block 

Included the block and a drawing it was inserted into (no xrefs included)

Thanks for looking!

[Darin.Green · Accepted solution]

@whitney_jeff

Copy (or WLOCK) the contents of the TITLE-SHEET to a new file then it'll work fine. You have a bad Drawing File...

Note, each item within model space has a duplicate on top of each other.

DO NOT USE THE SELECT ALL TOOL ->> Because there's more items in a background of the file also duplicate geometry...

[whitney_jeff]

Thank you so much Darin!

Works perfectly now!

Jeff

[shannonbH2WBX]

I am having this issue as we are switching to 2020.

My setup is working fine, but a coworker inserts a border mask and everthing is x12.

I have checked his Units, gone to Options-User Preferences and all his settings are the same as mine.  These blocks all worked correctly before the change over.  What are we missing?

[shannonbH2WBX]

Anyone?

[whitney_jeff]

You have checked insunits?

[shannonbH2WBX]

Yep, and all the above.  I thought maybe it was something new with 2020.

[whitney_jeff]

As was suggested to me on the same topic, try wblocking the drawing from your computer/workstation.

If possible, use the * option (-wblock name *) where name is either a new name or the name of the current drawing.  If you use the current drawing name and location answer yes, you want to overwrite.

HTH

Jeff

[shannonbH2WBX]

It must be a setting on his Autocad setup.  If I open his dwg it works fine when I insert the block, I'm stymied, I've checked every setting mentioned here.