Hi,

I am importing a 2D Cad from wisywyg. My plan uses The Wyg Symbols as my custom symbols for my UDPS so i can be aligned with my Lighting Designer.

But i am not to scale. I want to my plans to reflect the reality as closly as possible.

With the atached pictures, you can see On of my fixtures wich is a Chauvet  colorado 1 solo.

The width of the unit as seen from draft sight is to scale ; 6,8.. inches. 1 unit = 1 inch.

but when i import to stardraw design 7.3 we clearly see fon the lenght of the selected line

that there is something wrong.. When i import as 1 unit = 1 MM we see 0.68 MM and
and whe n i import as 1 unit = 1 inch it says 0.03''

Also before realising that 0.68mm looks alot like 6.8'' but with the wrong units
i tried screwing around with the scaling import
i even did 1 unit= 5678 mm it also gave me 0.68mm lenght for that line

Maybe i am doing something the wrong way

Your help would be much apreciated

Thank you

Hi Jean Philipe,

There are 2 ways to correct this.

1) When importing, set the correct unit, which I believe will be 1 Unit = 6.8 Inches (use the dropdown in the import dialog to select inches instead of Millimetres)

or

2) After importing at an incorrect scale, select everything (optional; Group the selection) and use Arrange | Scale to resize the selection to the correct size.  You can work out the scaling percentage to apply by dividing the dimension you want by the dimension you've got, then multiply by 100.  So if something is 0.03" and you want it to be 1" use 1/0.03 * 100 = 3333%

Unfortunately the image included in your post is too small to read the actual dimensions, so I can't give a real-world example.

If you continue to experience problems with importing the file, please email the original DWG to techsupport@stardraw.com and we'll be happy to take a look.


Kind regards,
Rob Robinson
Stardraw.com