Steve Bigfish Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 I use blocks all the time and have them on pallets , ones I have created and ones from many others. I have just found that they all now add a 33 scale , I have looked into creating new ones and ticking the allow explode seams to work . How do I edit all the existing ones? I have tried in properties and it wont save ANY IDEAS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Sorry, I don't understand. What does "add a 33 scale" mean? Can post a sample block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Bigfish Posted May 23, 2014 Author Share Posted May 23, 2014 sorry when I go in the insert on the right bottom of the window the factor number always comes up as 0.0394 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Sounds like a problem with your insert units. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Bigfish Posted May 23, 2014 Author Share Posted May 23, 2014 hi mark , the insert factor is ok at 1 on my drawings originated by me , but the 0.03 on a drawingg supplied by another guy here , and I can't edit the factor on the insert screen , maybe it's his scaling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 That is caused by you trying to insert an imperial drawing into a metric one (or the other way around). Check the variables beginning with INS* and you should find the one to change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 or insert tham and scale them by 25.4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven-g Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 You mentioned having the blocks on pallets, right click on the selected block and open the properties, set the scale value to 25.4 (I got that from Dave ?) and try it now. But as Dave and ReMark mentioned it sounds like you need to check office standards, maybe someone is using the wrong units settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 a history lesson, we used to draw everything "unitless" meaning one drawing unit = whatever you want it to be. some time ago this millenium AutoCAD introduced the INS* variables so that blocks are automatically scaled to match the INSUNITS that the blocks were drawn in. Naturally this only works if both source and destination have had their units set. And naturally, the default was biased to imperial. In other words us metric people were suddenly subjected to our own blocks coming in at 1mm=1" or 25.4 times too big/small. So that is where the 25.4 (or 1/25.4=0.0393700787) scale factors come from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Bigfish Posted May 23, 2014 Author Share Posted May 23, 2014 many thanks to both of you , it definitely looks like the 3 rd party member of staff has got his settings wrong .....regards Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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