Scaling Issues 1

[pjhunton]

I saved a Solidworks drawing as a .DWG and opened it in Draftsight. Something is fishy with the scaling. If I dimension something in Draftsight that was already dimensioned from my SW drawing, the DS dimension is twice as big. So I scaled everything down by half, deleted all of the dimensions and re-dimensioned them in DS. Worked fine. One strange thing that I notice is if I offset a line by 50mm and then dimension the distance between the two lines, the dimension says 100mm.
Any explanations on what's going on or what I can do to make sure that the scales are correct when I use DS to open a .DWG file that was created in SW?
Many thanks!
P.J.

 

[tr1ntx]

If you saved a SW drawing as a .dwg file, it is possible the "drawing view" (or viewport) is scaled 1:2