amscrew2d blocks come in undersized

[nathan_m_gardner]

I have not used AutoCAD in nearly 20 years. I have this new job now, and they use Inventor 2023 and AutoCAD 2023. There is no real CAD admin, and I believe these software were not fully set up. I could be off with that so don't hold me to it. Back in 1998-2000 I studied with R14. Much has changed....

Now in AutoCAD mec 2023, I am trying to use amscrew2d for my hardware blocks. We are using metric drawings so when I use amsrecw2d and I select an M24 it comes in very small. I need to explode the block and then scale it by 25.4. I am seeing this with the weld symbols as well. I have set my insunits to (4) but this does not help. 

Is there something I can do so when I bring in these blocks they come in at the right scale?

[Keshava_Murthy]

Hi @nathan_m_gardner,

Thanks for posting your question on this forum.

From your explanation, I could assume that you might be using a ansi template (am_ansi.dwt) and inserting a M24 screw. Can you please confirm!!

Please do check and reply by creating a new drawing in am_iso.dwt and insert the M24 screw and you still see the same issue or it is inserting as per your expectation.

[nathan_m_gardner]

It looks like my company created its own templates. I do not know what was used originally; however, a few years back, my company switched from imperial to metric dimensioning. If I would guess, they just changed the settings of the original templates. Which would have been ansi.

[FelipeMolon]

Hi!

Try opening your template and type UNITS and then ENTER. In the window that will open, change the units to millimetric.

If it works, save it as a template, So you won't need to do it again on new drawings.