jenmarsch Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Hey all, Struggling to export my Chief drawings to CAD to correct scale. One day was working fine, now it is exporting way out of scale. I have tried fixing it in chief with the unit conversions, creating a 1:1 scale. nothing changes. Only resolve is if I go into CAD, copy my export, select scale, and type 12. There has to be a way to fix it from happening every time. SOS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcowscarnival Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 The scale factor of 12 makes me think its units in your CAD program. When I export from Chief (no scale factoring) and open that directly in CAD, units are still set to decimal. Quick change to Arch and everything works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenmarsch Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 That could be it. However, I can seemlessly export the the existing floor plan that i have saved in chief from a different date. But with the proposed, everything is out of scale and I am exporting them into the same CAD file. In CAD I have it set to Arch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenPalmer Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Perhaps play with the 'feet' vs 'inches' scaling units during the export process...?? https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00013/converting-plan-files-to-dwg-or-dxf.html Also, make sure you are exporting from the plan file vs the layout file. Just a couple of quick thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenmarsch Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 Yes thank you! I have tried changing those and nothing happened. I did some digging before coming on here and tried a lot of different ways but still nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenPalmer Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 ...and (just to clarify) are you exporting from plan view or from the layout? From there, without seeing exactly the step by step process you are following, it would be difficult to troubleshoot. I'd recommend calling tech support where they can walk through the process with you to help find the culprit. Best of luck...hope you aren't on a time crunch....nothing more fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCooper Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 So just going to throw out some more random guesses... Are you working in a plan that was started with a template that was in imperial units? Are you exporting from a PLAN view or are you exporting from a layout or a cad detail? Layouts are always in paper space units and not real world units. When you are in the "export drawing" dialog, are you choosing inches ("in" ) or are you choosing some other units? Did you mess around with your "unit conversions" in your preferences? Assuming that you are exporting an imperial plan view, choosing inches, and you haven't changed your unit conversions, it should just work. You might want to post your plan and someone can see if they can tell what is going on. Other than that, I would agree with Ben and suggest tech support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_Gia Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 1 hour ago, jenmarsch said: Struggling to export my Chief drawings to CAD to correct scale. I wouldn't worry about this too much. Anybody working with Autocad deals with this sort of thing on a regular basis. The scale tool in Autocad can fix this in under 1/2 a second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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