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 Now open Inkscape, and open your .dxf file. Inkscape will prompt for a scaling method. If the drawing was in millimeters, we may choose "Manual scale" with a manual scale factor of 1.0. If the drawing was in inches, I've had the most success by choosing "Read from file" (millimeters is usually safer). Now open Inkscape, and open your .dxf file. Inkscape will prompt for a scaling method. If the drawing was in millimeters, we may choose "Manual scale" with a manual scale factor of 1.0. If the drawing was in inches, I've had the most success by choosing "Read from file" (millimeters is usually safer).
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 +We can also use other units, but the "Manual scale" option will assume whatever units given are in millimeters. The scale factor we input corrects for the units to be in millimeters. For example, if my part is created and exported as a .dxf file in meters, then the scale factor would be 1000.0.
  
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