Problem with two drawings at diferent scales

As a new user of AutoCAD I am having problems with a scaling issue. This is probably a simple problem but I cant see the wood for the trees at the moment.

I have two drawings that were produced by two different authors - not me.

I need to transfer some detail from one to the other, but the two drawings do not match and I don't know how to resolve the problem.

For instance...

On the target drawing (it's a site layout) if I create a dimension it shows in mm. So a 5m dimension is listed as 5000 which is what I want.

On the drawing from which I want to copy detail a similar item (a small building) 5m square shows a dimension of 5.000.

If I copy this item into the target drawing it reproduces as a 5mm square where it should be 5000mm.

I know copying a square is trivial,but I have a substantial amount of much more complicated detail to transfer.

How can I "enlarge" the drawing that I need to copy from by 1000 times so that when I copy detail it is the right size for the target drawing?

I think the target drawing has been set up correctly whereas the source drawing perhaps has not been set up properly in the first place.

if you are only copying objects from one to the other SCALE everything by 1000. This will change your dimension text sizes etc. so more work will be required if you need a usable drawing at the end.

you could copy (or WBLOCK) all the objects from one and INSERT as a block into the other. Then it will be easy to scale the whole thing, or when you insert the block, insert as scale 1000 (as mentioned above). and EXPLODEif necessary

Thanks Dave and Qball,

SCALE Worked perfectly.

Being new to CAD I have not yet found all of the possible commands - probably never will!

But now I can get some progress until I come up against something else that's not immediately obvious.

Thanks again

Jim

Thanks Dave and Qball,

 

 

 

Being new to CAD I have not yet found all of the possible commands - probably never will!

 

 

Jim

5 years using cad and I dont know every possible command.

5 years using cad and I dont know every possible command.

15 years here and no expectation of ever totally mastering it.

Yep - 19 years with ACAD and I'm still a newbie abourt some things. ACAD is so (what's the word here?). When you work in a position you tend to only use the commands needed to get the job done, because time is money. And if you only work one engineering discipline you become limited as to how much you use. Eventually given enough time you can get a well rounded amount of experience, but I don't know if anyone has or can master the program in it's enitrity or use it to it's fullest potential.

Sorry for the drift...

in the help menu under "Contents" there's "Command Reference". Browse through it, see what piques your interest. They're usually pretty intuitive.

I think the target drawing has been set up correctly whereas the source drawing perhaps has not been set up properly in the first place.

I do not think that you can say that one drawing has been set up incorrectly. Land Surveyors usually work in metre units, and Architects commonly work in millimetre units. You are at the interface and the easiest thing to do is to scale up the drawing in metres by a factor of 1000.

I had heard that 4 weeks was enough. :wink:

I heard that as well!

I don't know anyone who can master anything in 4 weeks.

I think that guy may suffer from A.D.D.

I heard that as well!

I don't know anyone who can master anything in 4 weeks.

 

I think that guy may suffer from A.D.D.

Well....I can think of a few things you can master in 4 weeks or less, but ACAD ain't one of 'em.:wink:

I mastered downing a slammer glass of tequila in less than a second. Took me a few trips to the bar though.

I heard that as well!

I don't know anyone who can master anything in 4 weeks.

 

I think that guy may suffer from A.D.D.

Or spends WAY to much time with CAD...

I learned how to use CAD before I knew how to drive 15+ years ago.... and I get sick of it at times...

I'll never know everything, heck I'll probably forget stuff I realised I didn't know in the first place.