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    i made a drawing in autocad , so when i import it to solid works it is scaled very large as an example i made a disk plate in autocad its dia was 100mm(4in) when i exported it to ACIS format for solidworks and when opoened it in solidworks its dia became 100inches . how can i solve this problem?

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    There is no need to triple post a question. Please show some patience. Thank you.

    Can't you just scale the drawing?

    It also sounds like you are working with the equivalent of the wrong (AutoCAD) template assuming Solidworks gives the user a choice between metric and imperial.

    Please note that there is a Solidworks forum which you seemed to have missed all three times.
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    Silly question, are your units set to millimetres in AutoCAD?
    Are you using a metric .dwt?

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