Importing scale problems

Does anyone have any idea why whenever I try to import stuff, it comes in at
the wrong scale. I've downloaded thinks off of websites and sometimes they
are off by the conversion factor of metric to English. I've tried different
unit settings with the templates and still get the same thing.

Now I'm trying to import some Cadkey stuff directly and the scale is really
wacked out to some odd size.

Jay

 

Hi Jay,

I've been getting the same results on the last few files I imported. They were Mechanical Desktop .STEP files. I assumed
it was the way the customer was exporting them. I could not scale them up 25.4 times either, they all failed. I told the
customer what was happening and they re-sent new parts. Those new parts imported the same, but at least I was able to
scale them.

Ken B.

Oh yeah, I'm on SWX2003 SP3.1.

 

Hi Ken,

FYI, my problems are with 2003 & 2004. 2003 was doing it at the 25.4 and
now 2004 is something really off the wall. Kind of got me a serious
situation going on here.

Jay

were Mechanical Desktop .STEP files. I assumed

25.4 times either, they all failed. I told the

imported the same, but at least I was able to