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   Hi guys,
I am a complete beginner to CAD so if you could take it slow with me it would be much appreciated. 

What I want to do seems fairly simple but I am having a fair bit of trouble with it. I just want to copy a drawing from one CAD file onto a drawing from another CAD file and have the scale the same.

I have done this is the past with no scale issues but for some reason with this new set of drawings I am working with whenever I do it one is significantly bigger than the other (a batching plant is approx 10x the size of an entire floor plan)

I have trawled through the internet and found lots of info on scaling but nothing has worked. surely this is a common thing and there is a fairly simple way to achieve it? 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks 

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se7en Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 26.Oct.2013 Location: United Arab Emirates Using: AutoCAD2013 Status: Offline Points: 2	Topic: Beginner - Need Some Help!? Posted: 26.Oct.2013 at 10:14
	Hi guys, I am a complete beginner to CAD so if you could take it slow with me it would be much appreciated. What I want to do seems fairly simple but I am having a fair bit of trouble with it. I just want to copy a drawing from one CAD file onto a drawing from another CAD file and have the scale the same. I have done this is the past with no scale issues but for some reason with this new set of drawings I am working with whenever I do it one is significantly bigger than the other (a batching plant is approx 10x the size of an entire floor plan) I have trawled through the internet and found lots of info on scaling but nothing has worked. surely this is a common thing and there is a fairly simple way to achieve it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

John Connor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01.Feb.2011 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD 2018 Status: Offline Points: 7175	Posted: 26.Oct.2013 at 12:33
	It could be something simple like the units for the two drawings are different meaning one is metric while the other is imperial or vice-versa. You could always bring the old drawing into the new one as a block then use the SCALE command with the REFERENCE option to rescale it. Fairly simple procedure.
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