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ok I changed the size to that post above
the image got really small on my screen

but when I go to print preview it still fits on the paper and prints the correct size

maybe that is good?, I sent the file to the machinist so I will see tomorrow if it will open correctly on his end

the guy said when he reads my file it comes as a sketch I think
so he cant scale it at all

I will try the post above


I would like to try solidworks but everytime I used it the screen would freeze
I dont have a good computer video card so that may be why

but if I am to use him again for projects it would be nice to have my file work so he wont have to use his time to draw up projects There are no arbitrary errors in such conversions. He very likely simply interpreted one millimeter as one inch which makes the whole drawing 229 inches wide (= more t...

ok I will try that here
and let him know see if he can figure it out

he seemed to do everything in inches
not sure if that has anything to do with it

ok he seemed to only know how to do a few things in solid works so maybe some setting was wrong on his end I did give him the paper copy and he said he will just re enter all the sizes and do it manually but if I am to use him again for projects it would be nice to have my file work so he wont have ...

ok attached the file I hope

ok one more problem now, but the opposite I give the file to a machinest he uses solid works and it opens right up but the scale on his computer says its like 20 feet long where its supposed to be around 9-10 inches long when I saved the file I only saw one format option is there something im missin...

yes all sizes settings in the program are set in MM I have a dedicated MM, and CM ruler I just checked it to my calipers and I saw the problem The ruler shows 1-2-3 etc but its actually means 10's, 20's, 30's etc on MM where I thought it was 1MM so each little line is a MM and now makes sense and ye...

I was able to get this with a few clicks in print preview and it looks like the correct size according to the grid sizes and the typical sheet of paper but when I print its about 6mm short width wise and 1mm height wise even tried to save it to pdf and on the pdf print preview its still that slightl...

When I first ran the program I chose MM and later after having this problem I found a menu and its still under MM the only other option I saw was to set it to inches I have the paper set to MM too, but ive tried both no change I have this part in hand and used a MM ruler to get all my sizes so its e...

I just installed version 3.3 I never used one of these programs before but was able to figure out how to draw a part I need to make I had originally set it to millimeters and assumed the grid numbers on the screen were mm scale But when I go print it, or print preview the image is as big as a pencil...