Border appears at wrong scale

[neilcheshire]

Hi
I have a strange problem when using AutoCAD 2006.
I am trying to insert a border either copy and paste or via insert. The border which is from another drawing is an ISO A1 border which measures correctly in the original drawing. However when I try and bring it into the new drawing it appears as though it is an AO size drawing border, nothing else changes. I am bringing it into paper layout space from paper layout space.

This is a rather urgent problem so any help you can give would be appreciated.

Regards
Neil Cheshire

[irneb]

A few possibilities that jump to mind:

• The TB is a dynamic block with width / height parameters which for some reason doesn't get copied into the new drawing.
• The TB is already defined in the new drawing as an A0 size TB.

In both cases try renaming the block to something else (either old DWG / new DWG) before performing the copy.

If it's not an exact A0 TB, check if there's maybe a UNITS difference between the drawings. Type the UNITS command and ensure both drawings have the same Insertion Scale.

[neilcheshire]

Hi

Units seem to be okay. I have taken the border from the original drawing and out it into a blank drawing. When I did this the drawing border was the correct size. I saved the drawing and then tried to insert this into the drawing I was trying to insert the border originally. The border again appeared at A0 size??

Any further ideas?

Regards
Neil

[neilcheshire]

Hi

Think I solved it. After I inserted the border into the new blank drawing I exploded the border and then saved the drawing as a dwg file. Then I inserted this into the drawing as before and it was the same size.

Hopefully that is it.

Will be back if there is and further problems.

Regards
Neil

[jaberwok]

The next time this happens, check out IRNEB's suggestion that a block is already defined with the same name. Run Purge and see if the block name is listed.