Posted by tomb18 on
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Initial-dimensions-and-loading-DXF-files-tp5712711p5712719.html

Hi,
Ok I tried changing the grid.
I had it in auto, 1, 10  nothing changes at all.
When I start the software on my 15" laptop the grids are about 1.5" apart.  Each grid has a 10x10 array of dots.  Each of these dots use up 10 of the coordinate system.  Thus if I am working in inches, then the coordinate system (lower left corner) is working in inches. Thus each major grid line represents 100 inches.
None of this makes any sense.
Any drawing program I have ever used shows a ruler.  This ruler usually is shown in inches or cm.  The subunits are in 10ths of an inch or something you define globally.   I have never experienced a program that displays grids as 100 inches per gridline and always makes you zoom in alot to see your 1" dimension as 1 inch.
No wonder every drawing I load up is so small that it can't even be seen when loaded.  Try it...lookup arduino dimensions.  You will find several librecad drawings and they are so small you cant see them unless you zooom and zoom and zoom  and then search everywhere for where they are relative to the origin.
So I ask again, can somebody please explain this?
FYI grid settings don't fix this. At least in my case.  Also I don't believe that all the other people that made an arduino dimension drawing store it zoomed out to 1000" per screen inch.  Something is wrong.