Text and arrow heads are huge on a dwg

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HypergolicPop
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Text and arrow heads are huge on a dwg

Post by HypergolicPop » Thu Oct 30, 2014 10:38 pm

3.7.0, MacBook Pro 10.7.5

Opening a dwg file and see huge text and arrowheads.

The dwg file is a FEMA Storm Room. See: https://www.fema.gov/media-library/asse ... 15?id=5788

Huge Text and Arrow Heads

Problem (Screen capture): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B84lO ... authuser=0

Source: http://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/ ... an_rev.dwg

Any ideas on how to fix it?

The workaround I have found is to use Teigha® File Converter to convert from dwg to dxf. See: http://www.opendesign.com/guestfiles/te ... econverter

TIA,
Hypergolic Pop :)

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Re: Text and arrow heads are huge on a dwg

Post by Husky » Fri Oct 31, 2014 12:40 am

Hello Hypergolic Pop,

all of your links are not working for me - I've not the required permission - access denied :(
Could you please attach the dwg (or dxf) to this post? Thank you!

Edit: Never mind! By now I was able to download the file directly from fema.gov


They used for the "Dimension Settings" a "Size scale Factor" of 40 - I changed it to 1.

You can find this setting below: Menu: Edit / Drawing Preferences
Husky-2014.10.30-02.png
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... and here is my modified file. :wink:
320_ag_06plan_rev_mod.dwg
(56.57 KiB) Downloaded 403 times

Will that work for you?
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Re: Text and arrow heads are huge on a dwg

Post by HypergolicPop » Fri Oct 31, 2014 2:36 am

Thanks!

I bought the book so I guess I should read it. ;-)

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Re: Text and arrow heads are huge on a dwg

Post by Husky » Fri Oct 31, 2014 8:21 am

HypergolicPop wrote:Thanks!

I bought the book so I guess I should read it. ;-)
You are welcome!

I think the book is really good - it will help you to overcome many obstacle. The rest is just learning by doing ... :wink:

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