I create a panel drawing in Stardraw, and safe it as a dxf. It is done in metric, preferences in mm, saved as a CAD 2005 .dxf, with 1 unit set to 1 mm.

When I insert the block in CAD is shows that the block units are in inches, and it has a factor of 25,4. This results in the block being 25,4 times larger than it should be. To overcome this I need to set the scale of the block to be inserted to a factor of 1/25,4. This results in the panel drawing being not that accurate as the required scale factor is infinite.

There must be a better way....

HP

Thanks & Best Regards

Hanspeter Frick

I'm unable to reproduce the issue you describe, and don't understand why you think it's impossible to insert multiple DWGs into a single DWG.  Having saved 2 panels as 2 separate DWGs there is no problem inserting each/both into a drawing in AutoCAD (I am using AutoCAD 2010).

Likewise if I open the DWGs there is no problem copying and pasting either or both into other drawings in AutoCAD.

Perhaps there is a specific issue with the files you are creating.  Could you post the S01 files, and DWG files as a zipped attachment - we'd be happy to take a look.

Kind regards,
Rob Robinson
Stardraw.com