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Anonymous
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Autocad 2017 ignores the units when importing pdf

Hi,

 

I'm fairly new to Autocad as I usually work with Microstation.

 

The problem we have now is that we have a drawing (units in mm) with a frame in the model that is 297 mm high.

We also have a pdf that is 297 mm high.

When checking the size of the pdf in Adobe it's all good. BUT, when using the commando pdfimport in Autocad, we find that the main unit for the pdf in fact is inches. (The pdf comes from a customer and has been through a looong process to get approved. So creating a new pdf isn't an option.)

 

When importing sw "tell" the pdfimport that it should be in 1:1 scale. Nothing fancy.

But the imported pdf does not become the same size as the frame. What it looks like is that the pdfimport ignores that there's a difference in units and just import the pdf with the size it has in numbers. In this case it gets the height of 49.86 inches which is 297 mm. 

The result being a pdf that is 49.86 mm high.

 

Does anyone now a workaround for this? Scaling the pdf by 25.4 is not an option!

I would like for Autocad to read the units and thereby see that 49.86 inches actually is 297 mm.

 

Please help. My first batch contains 129 pdf's.

 

Sincerely

Thomas