unit-scaling inserted database?

[bball]

Hi,

I am working with a block that when inserted, the text in the block is scaled up huge. It says that it is "unit-scaling inserted database". On other machines we do not get this message and it's inserted correctly. Is there any way to fix this? Any help would be appreciated! FYI, I've checked the measurement and measureinit settings and they seem to be fine.

Thanks!

[eclipse1995gsx]

Have you checked INSUNITS to see what they are set to?
Also check INSUNITSDEFSOURCE & INSUNITSDEFTARGET.
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[3D Jack]

I have also run into the same problem with some drawings at another company. When I insert a block into one of their drawings it is scaled up by 10. Yet it shows that it is scaled by 1 for XY&Z. However, the text is 10 times too tall and it is inserted 10 times to far from zero. I have set all of the variables mentioned in the previous post to 0 then all to 1 and all to 2 and nothing works. I hope someone has found what variable is controlling this. I have attached a drawing that has the block inserted into the title block along with that same block before it is inserted. I looked at the DXF output and could find nothing. I also looked at all the setvar's with a value of 10 and nothing shows up. When I wblock the offending block out to a new file it is 10 times the size of text etc. May this is just plain crazy and makes NO sense. Thanks for any and all help, Jack Foster.

[jaberwok]

In the block drawing set Measureinit to 0.
Currently the block has it set to 1 but the border drawing has is set to 0.
Also the block has Insunits set to 2 but the drawing has it set to 1.

[kennet.sjoberg]

Well, I am a Metric user and do not either understand Imperial.

The scale difference from the block.dwg to tile.dwg is 12 = 304.8/25.4 = Feet/Inch

You probably have to play with :

INSUNITSDEFSOURCE ;; Inches =1, Feet = 2, Millimeters = 4 ;; saved in registry
INSUNITSDEFTARGET ;; Inches =1, Feet = 2, Millimeters = 4 ;; saved in registry
INSUNITS ;; Inches =1, Feet = 2, Millimeters = 4 ;; saved in drawing

and there is more system parameters to take care of : MEASUREINIT, MEASUREMENT and . . ?

or turn in to the real and clear metric world

: ) Happy Computing !

kennet

[jaberwok]

Hmm. It worked earlier but not now.



It's somewhere in amongst the INS* and MEASURE* variables

[scott.wilcox]

To get around this problem, type -DWGUNITS at the command prompt and follow the prompts.

The last prompt is:

Scale objects from other drawings upon insert? [Yes/No]

Say No, and then say No again after the warning to turn off the unit-scaling inserted database feature.

[irneb]

I am working with a block that when inserted, the text in the block is scaled up huge.

Are you referring to Attributes or some type of dim / mleader in the block? In which case the style (text, dim, or mleader) may be different between the drawings - so it uses that of the current DWG.

You should also check if you're using Annotative. If you copy from one drawing to another it adjusts annotative objects according to the CANNOSCALE sysvar.

[bdouglas168405]

I tried all these solutions with no luck. I then checked the drawing that I was trying to drag in and found that it had AEC objects in it. If you use the command -EXPORTTOAUTOCAD it will make another file and convert the AEC objects to blocks. No more scaling! Hope this can help.

[sampath81]

its work thanks for your instruction