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    Scaling from Cad

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      Scotty T
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      Does anyone know when we open a cad model in Sketchup that it is 10 times larger in scale than what is supposed to be? And what are the settings to fix?

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        Scotty T
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        Whoop...never mind...needed to import as a 3ds from cad also.

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          robmoors
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          I have had the opposite happen to me I exported to dwg but the format scale was 1000 times off, changing my units from meters to mm helped there πŸ˜›

          Rob Moors
          Architecture Student

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            juju
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            offtopic: Bruce, I really like your new avatar, those candyapples ROCK!

            Scaling can be a problem, fortunately I haven't had too many problems with this though.

            Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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