Unit-scaling inserted database...

[cad_monkey]

Hi all

 

My 1st post didn't go to well so i'm trying again!

I received a drawing. Did nothing to it but try to insert a company layout. Whilst the layout was inserting, the command bar displayed this> Unit-scaling inserted database...

And when the layout inserted, it was exactly 1000 times too big (only the drawing frame not the paperspace - paperspace was correct).

I checked that the source file and the destination file where using the same unit measurements...they where, 'unitless'.

Anybody know what I can do here? Whether I can turn off this Unit-scaling? What's causing it to unit-scale?

 

ANY help would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks.

[cad_monkey]

No worries...sorted it!

 

In case anybody is interesed, if you type -drwgunits into the command bar of the troublesome drawing, you can choose the relevant options from the menus it diaplays in the command window. Then eventually, it will let you select whether or not to scale objects from other drawings - type NO and try again...job done!

 

Well happy.

[Mag76]

Hi

I Have similar problem, but . ...

-drwgunits command is unknown by my full cad 2006

When In inserting the layout from design centre title block is 25.4 times biger (means 10inches biger) but question is why???

Anybody could help??

I checked measurement and units -both same

checked insunitsdeftarget/source - both 0

 

Any other ideas what acn cause the scaling??

 

Thanks

[BOB'27T]

Try setting the units to "unitless" before you insert it. It's worked for me in the past.

[Mag76]

I have them all on unitless, but still no luck.

I suspect there is something with inserting stuff from Design centre ??

[wannabe]

Do the source drawing and target drawing actually have the same scales? Not one as metres and one as millimetres? That would explain the scale of 1000 too much.

[Mag76]

maybe taht was the case for cad_monkey

but I have both drawings in unitless and still layout would came scaled by 25.4, like it would be x10 inches...???

any other cloues ? I was thinking maybe drawing remembers in what units this layout was created, but if that would be inches , should be then only scaled by 2,54 ...

[jconfer]

I'm having the same problem. I was working in decimal units in a lighting calculation program and then exported into cad. I changed the units of the export and scaled it up 10 to be the correct size, matched units with the drawing I wanted to paste it into. When I pasted it I still had to scale ot by 25.4. It seems that the file remebered being first created in decimal units. Still haven't figured out how to fix it.