Insert Blocks are small!

[craigp]

In CAD 2007 whenever i insert a block they are all really small. All the scale values etc... are set to 1 but still they are small. What is causing this??

[dbroada]

are they 25.4 times too small? We had this trouble when we went to 2006. This is our email to our suplier and their reply...

Blocks are the wrong scale.
I am an experienced AutoCAD user and consider myself more than competent at handling blocks which I have been using for a number of years .However since upgrading to AutoCAD 2006 I find that when I insert a file I have created in an earlier release into my main drawing it is always at the wrong scale.
This problem is related to block insertion units. There are a number system variables that control the scale blocks are inserted into a drawing. INSUNITS controls the scale at which the block is inserted when drawn using different units. If the value of this variable is set to 0 (or undefined in releases where the variable was unavailable) then INSUNITSDEFSOURCE sets the units of an inserted block and INSUNITSDEFTARGET sets the units of the drawing that the block will be inserted into. This is all a bit confusing so the short answer is to set all three to 0 and, assuming that all your blocks are drawn with the same units, no scaling occurs and the blocks appear at the correct size

hope that helps.

[craigp]

Correct they are all 25.4 scaled! I have done all the commands and set to 0. It works
You are a star Dave I owe you a pint for that one, cheers!

[dbroada]

don't you love it when software gets too clever. That one drove us nuts for a few days.

[craigp]

Yes! Why do they come up with these commands that you can't find anywhere on the net?
Thanks goodness for the knowledge of you guys otherwise i would be stuck for weeks as my job is all about inserting blocks!

Cheers

[wheatendog]

This one was driving me round the bend there for weeks.
Have all my blocks drawn up in 2000i and was lost a bit with the scaling of them into 2007.
Cheers and thanks a lot for making life easy.
Just adjusted all my templates so that I dont have to remember this one.