Solid Edge to AutoCAD Scaling 1

[Toantanium]

Hello,

This is my first time as a user on Eng-Tips. I'm a new mechanical engineer and have a question regarding Solid Edge draft file to AutoCAD .dwg scaling.

When creating a draft file in SE, I have a view of a rectangle with a scale factor of 1:10. When I save the file as a .dwg and open it up in AutoCAD, annotating dimensions will give 1/10th of what they should be due to the scaling factor from the SE draft file. I understand you can manually edit the dimension style and set the dimensions to be annotated with a scale factor. However, I'd like to know if there was a more robust way to do this. That is to say, is there a way for AutoCAD to account for this scale factor so that, without manually editing dimension styles, the annotated dimensions will show up as their true correct dimensions?

Thank you

 

[KENAT]

Make sure your export (from SE) dimensions match the import dimensions setting in the software you open it with.

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[Toantanium]

Thanks KENAT! Making the export dimension and import dimension settings the same solved the problem. Much appreciated!

 

[PatCouture]

If the post from Kenat was usefull as you implied then the proper display of appreciation is to give him a star!

 

[beachcomber]

I'll give him the star

bc.
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[KENAT]

Cheers Beach & Pat.

However, having imported & exported may a dxf to/from SE and either finding things off by a factor of 25.4, or getting complaints that things are off by 25.4 this was an easy one for me to throw my 2C in for.

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