John and the List, Sorry for the delay, but I am just getting to some of my email.
I also just ran into this problem a few months ago when trying to imort import an ISD dxf from some of your JPL buddies, and as I remember it, the problem was that Protel was expecting Imperial, and got Metric, which needless to say, it had to scale. Can't remember now whether the solution was in selecting "Metric" during the Import, or whether it was setting the Protel Drawing Parameters to Metric prior to the Import, but one or the other should work. Part of the problem here is that the original ISD drawing was done in millimeters, rather than centimeters, which would have probably fit the drawing space without scaling, and the inch/metric fubar would have been redily apparent. Oddly enough, the mechanickle guys had the same problem going backwards, since 8208 specs pwbs are to be done in inches, and Protel thinks in mils, when they tried to import Protels DXF/DWG inch output as metric, their Solid Works went south trying to scale everything. Hope this solces the problem. Why on earth are you still using SP2 ??? The guys in south Escondido should have a copy of SP6 lying around, and if they don't, I belive that I have. JaMi ----- Original Message ----- From: "John M. Cardone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 4:45 AM Subject: [PEDA] DXF import size limitation > All, > Using 99SE, SP2 when I import a DXF protel wishes to automatically scale > the input (just to be helpful?). The trouble is that would ruin the > design. I know that the workspace is limited to 90" x 90" but the DXF > import limitation seem to be something less then that. Does anyone know > the actual limitations? > Thanks > John > > -- > ######################################################### > John M. Cardone http://www.jmcdesignservices.com > JMC Design Services MailTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > P.O. Box 397 office: 530-436-2216 > Grenada, CA. 96038 cell: 805-796-0787 > ######################################################### > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
