I have set the DXF preferences. However, when importing the objects are huge. I know what the object sizes are supposed to be. Is there a way to fix this.
Do you have Auto-detect units if possible turned on? Something may be confusing its assumptions.
If the size is wrong with it turned off, have you set a specific import unit to match the drawing?
For example, a DXF generated with inches and imported with units set to millimeters will be huge by a factor of 25.4.
I do have Auto-Detect enabled. I tried mm and inches. Same problem.
Uploading the offending DXF and the resulting LBRN2 file will help other folks suggest other possibilities.
If the design is proprietary, gimmick up a simpler failing testcase.
The files are too big to upload. Any other ideas.
Gimmick up a simpler failing testcase.
OK. Try this.
TESTFILE.dxf (1.7 MB)
The numeric values in the DXF file are in the thousands and tens of thousands. Turning off the automagic detection and forcing the import unit to microns makes the outer rectangles about 22 inches wide, which seems reasonable.
It looks to me like the DXF file is, as the kids say, wack.
Does the program generating these files have a configuration setting for the output unit? Perhaps you’re drawing in inches (or millimeters or whatever) and it’s outputting in microns, absurd though that may seem.
I received these files from some one else.
Assuming they come out the right size, select microns as the input unit when you import them. Keep that setting in mind when you get DXF files from other folks who will surely use different units!
If microns don’t produce the right size, then rescale the drawings after importing, based on a dimension you know a priori and can measure on the drawing. Select everything, lock the aspect ratio in the Numeric Edits toolbar, enter the ratio in either scaling box, and that should do the trick.
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