JoeCool Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 I have a drawing that was exported from Civil 3D. I can open it and everything renders fine but anything I draw on it comes out super sized (multiples of 12 basically). If I look at the drawing units its feet, which is what I want, but I must be missing a scale setting or something. If I draw a line at 10' (10'<0) and I do a dimension I get 120.00 If I draw a line at 10 without specifying the foot mark, I get a line that the dimensions say is "10" Offsets work the same way. If I input 10' with the foot mark the offset distance is very large but if I input 10 without the ', its correct. I guess I don't really care, I can just interpret my measurements as decimals and convert fractions to decimal points but I'd like to figure it out. I find drawing units and scales, etc in Autocad confusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 Yes, Civil Engineers work in decimal units. The easiest thing to do would be to open a new drawing with units set to architectural and then xref the Civil's file with a scale factor of 12. Then you will be able to draw and dimension as you normally would. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 (edited) I work metric but sounds like units are inches. In metric similar problem mm v's m. Why not scale all 1/12 Edited November 23, 2023 by BIGAL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeCool Posted November 24, 2023 Author Share Posted November 24, 2023 This was very helpful, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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