Hi all,

I'm transitioning from illustrator to Inkscape and trying to bring in DXF files. When I open the DXF in Inkscape I get this weird room text and square. I even tried to make random basic objects in Autocad an open them in Inkscape. They all look identical. If I change the scale to ft to inkscape A4 it works, but that is not the right size. My Autocad units are decimal inch. Am I missing a step?

Inkscape DXF on left. Same DXF on right open in Autocad.

Looks like the layer selection is confused. Please upload/share the dxf file.

Uploaded the dwf also

Ok, not the layers... the origin. The profile you seek is eight miles away from the origin and the page.

(The number 4 key zooms the drawing to the window)

Lol, eight miles wow. Thanks for showing me how you fix it

Ok, not eight miles... but 67k inches (on the diagonal) is over an actual mile, lol.

Cheers.

Lol, still a bit off. Thanks again.

Sorry, one more question. Why does it put that room text and box with circles etc? I moved the object in AutoCAD to 0,0 to see if it would come in right, and it did. Was just curious why it adds the text and other strange objects.

I'm sure those objects are in the original dxf, but get ignored by CAD software.

It did suffer some math rounding, but I upped the precision settings to 16 and that seems to bring it in tighter. 

Ah ok. Well, thanks for all the quick tutorials. Much appreciated.

Well i am not good at it, but whoever reply here, they are experts and i appreciate their work.