Civil 3D Drawing

[JoeCool]

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.

[Cad64]

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.

[BIGAL]

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

[JoeCool]

This was very helpful, thanks!