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Scaling

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Scaling

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Good Afternoon Everyone! 

 

I am new to the AutoCad world and am having a problem scaling a drawn image to insert into another image. I dont know enough about AutoCad (yet) to understand technical lingo so simplicity would be best.

 

I am building a layout for an expo and have a drawing done by another person in AutoCad, and am attempting to insert my own drawing to scale into the existing drawing. My drawing is far too small when inserted into the other image. 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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cadfmconsultants
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It sounds like you have two drawings with disparate unit settings. You should know what units you drafted your drawing in; inches, millimeters, etc, but you need to check what units the other drawing is in too. This often happens when two drawings are drawn in differing units, such as one in inches and the other in millimeters.

 

For example, if your drawing is in inches and a reference length on your drawing was, say, 6 inches (units) and you are trying to insert it in to a drawing that is in millimeters, that reference length of yours (6 units) will only display in the drawing as 6 MILLIMETERS, not inches, so it will appear smaller.

 

The normal conversion factor for inches to millimeters is 25.4 as there are 25.4 millimeters in 1 inch.

 

Try selecting ALL of the objects in your drawing, and using the SCALE command, scale them up by a factor of 25.4 and then try to put your drawing in to the other drawing. If it's not that scale factor, I'm pretty sure it will be another one. If you need a list of scale/conversion factors for AutoCAD, Google is a great place to find them. Just type in "conversion scale factors for AutoCAD"

 

Click on Accept As Solution if it worked. Reply back to me if it didn't!

 

Best of luck, SCB.

 



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gotphish001
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Just to add if you type UNITS in each drawing it will bring up a dialog box so you can see if they are indeed different by comparing them.

 

Since you said you are new to cad, the best practice is to draw everything full scale 1:1 in model space. The drawing space is unlimited so there is no reason to scale things smaller. It just causes confusion later. You can scale your 1:1 scale drawing in paperspace to any scale you want. That way if you needed to print it out in 2 different scales, you can easily accomplish this without changing the drawing in modelspace. If you've never used paperspace, I suggest watching a couple youtube videos on "how to use paperspace".  Try to watch more recent videos as a video from 2002 might not be as helpful as one from 2016 or whatever.

 

 You can also post both drawing here using the attach files feature under the text box if you want us to look at what you have. It's always easier to troubleshoot when you have the actual files.



Nick DiPietro
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