I just got a bunch of parts from a vendor scaled 1:4. I have been exporting parts like this for a long time and have never had this problem before. Here is what SW did:
On the second sheet of my print I had no title block visible and the sheet scale was set to 1:1. The view the part was on was set to sheet scale. In the past this would result in a dxf/dwg file 1:1. What happened is that SW put this view into paper space in dxf/dwg and scaled it to match the other drawing sheet in the SW file. When opened in DWGEditor the part measured OK (because it was in paper space) and I had to really dig to find the setting that told me the part had been scaled. In addition the other sheet in the SW drawing was in model space with title block. The result was the vendor burning parts 1/4 actual size. Fortunately there were only 8 parts in the order.
In speaking with the vendor's CAD jocky he has been seeing this problem from SW in the last little while.
Why wasn't this caught by SW, beta or anybody? When SW starts making bad parts that is a problem.
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