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From: dougr5@ix.netcom.com (DOUG RICHARDSON)
Subject: Re: 3D Studio Imports wrong size
To: Eric Case <eric@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu>
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You wrote:
>What are the drawing units in Acad? I imported some objects and found
>that the inches became meaters, so I used the objects->metric marco to
>fix the scale.
>
I 'almost' always design in decimal inches full scale. I just tried the the
objects->metric macro and the object is now only 600 feet long. Better but still
about 550 feet too long.
>
>I don't think it can be fixed because how would it know what units the
>drawing is in?
>-Eric
>
It's stored in the .3ds file I believe? How else would Autocad know what size the
object is supposed to be?
Anyway it seems after some tests the object is always off by the same ratio.
In lightwave I can now scale the object down by 39.34426229508 ( 39.345 ) to get
the correct size. No big deal since it is a major improvement over .DXF format
files.