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Inserting Downloaded Blocks at Correct Scale


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Hopefully somebody can help me quickly as i have a deadline tomorrow and I'm quite stressed given that AutoCAD is still fairly new to me.

 

I am looking at how much space an office of lawyers would have if it moved in to one of my employer's properties.

 

I downloaded a block of a plan view of a wheelchair user so I can see just how much space there is available.

 

The block is dimensioned but when I insert it and measure its dimensions, the readings are different. For example, a dimension reads 1070mm but when I measure it, I get 1023mm. Not far out but when I measure a 150mm dimension, I get 83mm. A 460mm dimension is measured as 536mm.

 

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I should add that when I measure up the original drawing of the wheelchair as it is as soon as I downloaded it, the measurements are wrong. Is it me or the drawing?

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I would be most suspicious of the downloaded drawing.

 

Can you share the block or give a pointer as to where you downloaded it from?

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Yeah, you got a bad block. It's probably a case of overwriting dimensions, if they even are dimensions. It should be an easy fix. If you can't fix it, someone here will be able to do that for you.

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Posted

Thanks. The block was indeed bad, as I didn't have any problems with other blocks that I downloaded.

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