MI to DXF translation

[Mark Church]

The DXF translation from MI to dxf works fine except I can't get it to translate line thickness correctly. A line 4" long and .1" thick in ME10 translates into AutoCAD as 4" long by 2.54" thick. I'm using AutoCAD 13 and me10 ver 7.2. DXF ver 8.5. I'm trying to import drawings of simple pc boards from ME10 into acad. Any ideas?

[Paul Romanowsky]

Mark: Your DXF.con file probably has the units set to mm. Hence when it translates .1 to 2.54 which is .1 x 25.4 On a UNIX system the DXF.conf file is probably under /opt/PE/dxf. Edit it so that the Units is set to :in and the Units Scale is set to :25.4 Your units are most likely currently set to :mm and Units Scale to :1.0 You might want to set up two DXF.con files, one for mm and one for inches. You could call them DXF.con_in and DXF.con.mm Then you could copy them back and forth into DXF.con Which one you use depends on which unit of measure you used when you created the drawing you are translating. Hope this helps