Creo 2 DXF Scale Wrong?

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
May 4, 2017
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Hi All,

For some reason, when I export a DXF of a drawing / part etc, it is now a lot smaller than the actual.

So I have a drawing of a part. The scale is set at 1.000 as you can see below.

If you look at the next picture, you can see the dimension 32 mm and 305.7mm

Now when the dxf is imported at 1:1 in to a dxf reader, its now showing the dimensions as 1.26 mm and 12.03mm

So a reduction of 25.4. which is inches! But the model etc is set in mm???

2D Drawing

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StephenW

23-Emerald III

Have you imported the file in to some other program? Is it possible the reader is doing an on the fly conversion? You probably use this reader for other things and trust it but just in case.

Can you attach a test part?

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TomU

23-Emerald IV

It seems like your reader is simply displaying the value in inches. Are you sure the numbers displayed in the reader are actually mm?

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cworthington

Author

1-Visitor

Hi,

Its definitely Creo doing it. We imported the same dxf in many programs and its wrong.

If we take the exact same part and open on someone elses Creo and do the same, its perfect size. Only my Creo is doing it???

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cworthington

Author

1-Visitor

‌iit's 100% Creo, not the reader. If you import the dxf back in to creo, it's shrunk by the 25.4. So creo is exporting it in inches even though all is in mm.

we have tried 5 readers and all show it shrunk. But if exported out of a different PC, all readers show it's correct.