karim el said Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 there where a thread from 2011 that suggest to do as above to scale the whole drawing and keeping the base point to 0,0 which is great but all my dimensions got distorted to a meaningless very big scale , is it a dimension issue like the dimension when created was non associative or what , can i fix it or is there is a lisp for that, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Did you use a metric template when you started this drawing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karim el said Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 I don't know as the drawing was created by a consulting office i just received it as i described. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Post the dwg sounds like the dimstyle may be the problem check your dim style and do a DIM update check also Dimscale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 The easiest way to use such a drawing is if you xref it with the appropriate scale factor into a new blank drawing. If you want to use the drawing itself by scaling, you will also have to go into any Dimension styles and manually alter the Fit. But if you post part of such a drawing, then you could be given explicit instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 This is what happens when I scale a drawing in mm with dimensions not associative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobDraw Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Why not just change the UNITS setting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 I answered in the other thread, use -dwgunits to set to meters from millimeters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karim el said Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 yes thank you SLW210 this converted the drawing but still the coordinates still in mm and the dimensions also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karim el said Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 oh thanks it worked i figured it out , its hilarious , the dwg units in feet as shown when type units but the consultant was meaning to work as mm , so when i use -dwgunits to convert it to mm without scaling as it is an error its ok , then i used the command again to change the units to m but this time with scaling and voila , the dimensions and coordinates are in m but the dimension distorted due to scaling as the drawing was fault from the beginning , so can i do any thing then when the drawing is scaled from mm to m the dimensions (arrows , lines extra) is scaled proportionally from dim update or dim scale . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karim el said Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 ok dim update and dim scale works like charm thanks SLW210 , thanks BIGAL, thanks ReMark , thanks eldon , thanks RobDraw all of you was very helpfull and iam honored to be with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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