Change scales?

[JasonJohnson]

I might be thinking in Max terms but in any case. I'm starting to learn Revit right NOW. No better way to do it then to work through a project at the same time. So I have this CAD file I found on a site. It's in Millimeters. My Revit is set up in feet? I believe thats the default? Anyways I imported the 4 levels into the correct places but my scaling is all off. Since I had it auto detect on import I guess it keep the same measurements from CAD then in the elevations view the levels are set at 10ft high.

 

So question is. How can I scale these 4 levels down into feet? I been Google searching but this may be the fastest way to find out

 

More questions to come I'm sure! Until then I'm at my first road block that I need to get around. Thanks guys!!

[JasonJohnson]

I found this in another thread for CAD

 

What I will do is:

 

Copy entire dwg (metric) into imperial template (New-Imperial)

scale entire dwg:

 

Command: scale

Select objects:all

Specify base point:

Specify scale factor or [Reference]: 0.03937007874016

 

Change current dim style from usually ISO to Standard

Update dimension

Check dwg for any inconsistency

 

... anything I miss?

Hope not. That it.

 

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Also found this.... but not sure what it means...

 

Specify scale factor or [Reference]: 0.03937007874016

as I don't like typing in those long numbers I use

 

R

25.4

1

 

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I tried that and seems like every thing in CAD is scaled correctly. I only know enough CAD to clean up a drawing. What the heck did I just do? And was that truly correct?

[BrianMyers]

This is what happened.

 

25.4mm = 1" or to scale it down: 0.03937007874016 (roughly)

 

In the future you'll notice that when you import in a CAD file one of your options is import units. If you change those import units to mm (or whatever is appropriate) instead of auto-detect it will be brought in appropriately without the need to use scale factors.

 

Good luck in your studies!

[JasonJohnson]

Nice! Thanks very much... I had a feeling it was some thing like that but wasn't sure.