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AutoCad 2000I "Scale "

AutoCad 2000I "Scale "

AutoCad 2000I "Scale "

(OP)
Good Morning;
 I have several old (1990) AutoCad files im tying to open and return them to full Scale for CNC purposes.
 Most of them state a scale factor of 1:4 .
I have zoomed in on a line of a Part in the drawing that is Dim. to be 3.000 inches. When I click on it using Properties command, it says it is .1054 Should be 3.000" Long.
 My Question is ; How can I scale this to full scale ? All of the drawings are at this scale.
 I have tried the Scale Objects command but cant seem to hit this odd scale Factor.
                           Thanks for the Help
 

RE: AutoCad 2000I "Scale "

Have you tried using "reference" in the scale command?
Specify scale factor or [Reference]: R
Specify reference length <1>: .1054
Specify new length: 3.000

RE: AutoCad 2000I "Scale "

(OP)
Thankyou for the help, tried this and I get a dim of 6.0007 or .0007 off, it maybe because we imported .DXF file .

RE: AutoCad 2000I "Scale "

Try reference again, instead of inputting .1054 use osnaps to select endpoint to endpoint (of the part that supposed to be 3.000), then specify new length as 3.000.

RE: AutoCad 2000I "Scale "

(OP)
Excellent , that worked , thankyou !!!!

RE: AutoCad 2000I "Scale "

For future reference you can also divide the desired measurement by the actual measurement for the scale factor. For example if you measure a line that is 4' long and it should be 1' long divide 1 by 4 (1/4 = 0.25) and your scale factor is .25 or in your case you'd take 3/0.1054 = 28.46299810246679316888045540797

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