CAD to Revit sizing

llaframbo
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CAD to Revit sizing

llaframbo
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Hello, I need to import a CAD drawing to Revit. I've done it plenty of times before and have not had this issue. In CAD the length of the building is 192' at 1/8"=1' but when I import the drawing to Revit the length of the building is 18,288' at 1/8"=1'

 

Any suggestions??

 

Thank you. 

 

 

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jdiala
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You inserted the dwg in feet. Try to insert it again using "inch" unit. Make sure that you delete all of the intances of the dwg file first before you insert

the new dwg or else it will just create a new instance with the same unit.

 

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chrisplyler
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Agree with jdalia.

 

But I'm confused a bit by the way you state the dimensions. A building is 192' long, period. It isn't 192' long at some scale. The scale you choose to plot at is not related to the actual building dimension in any way.

 

The exception is when some old paper draftsman doesn't understand AutoCad and creates a "scaled" drawing right in model space and prints/plots right out of model space, instead of modeling in real size and using layouts for scaled drawings.

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