When I insert my DXF into a site plan DWG, the template is clearly out of proportion: Either much too large or far too small. Whats going on?
There are two possible explanations. The first involves units. DXF output from Footprints™ is in “Decimal” (feet) units; if your site plan is in “Architectural” (inches) units, simply “scale” the template by a factor of 12. Otherwise, the drawing entities in the site plan DWG have been scaled in a clumsy attempt to plot to scale. The “dist” command in AutoCAD should ALWAYS reveal accurate dimensions for entities in model space, but some users will, due to inadequate understanding of the software, actually shrink their (electronic) drawing entities by a factor of 1/20 to get their plotter to draw at 1″=20′ scale! So to make your templates work on such a distorted site plan, you can either follow suit or correct their DWG. If you scale your template, make sure the background grid still makes sense…
