Metric to Imperial Conversion

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Uzaree
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Metric to Imperial Conversion

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I read on here a while back someone had the exact scale for importing a drawing from metric then converting it to imperial or vise versa. I want to say it was something like scale 129 or something like that. I can't remember. Any help would be great.

Either way, I have plasma cam installed in imperial and I'm importing some metric files. I don't want to uninstall and reinstall every time. I should have written this down but my brain says it will remember this but I'm getting old and I forgot.
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Re: Metric to Imperial Conversion

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If a part designed in mm is being interpreted as being in inches, it will appear huge on the screen (25.4 times bigger than it really is). Use a scale factor of .03937 (that is, 1/25.4) to reduce it to the intended size.
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