Importing .dwg files

[MARK MILLER]

Admittedly, I am still very new to Turbo CAD.  I have been trying to import a .dwg file into Turbo CAD and although I am getting the image to show up, the scale is WAY off and not all of the layers are showing up where they should be.  For example. the inner walls are in one place on the screen at a certain scale and the outer walls are on the other side of the screen at an entirely different scale.  Ideas?  I have not gone through all of the online tutorials, and the training guides I purchased are virtually useless.

The second issue I am having is getting the dimensions to show up accurately on that same drawing.  When I imported the file, I was sure to set the import to feet, and in the preferences the units are set to feet/inches.  What I am getting is inches with the (') feet symbol.

Thanks for any help.

[JBorlaug]

Mark! This is a standard import hassle with TC, as the parent origin of either DXF or DWG files are unknown. I had imported some DXF's from a site which were 50 inch diameters instead of 1 " etc.what I do is make a scaling bar and do the rescaling myself.

[MARK MILLER]

Thanks for the heads up.  I'm sure after a few projects and some tutorials I'll be able to get this program to do what I want it to do.  I REALLY want to like TC as I'd like to avoid a $4000 Autodesk seat.   In my office we're all AutoCAD, but as my station is primarily top level conceptual design and eventually detailed 3D pretty pictures, I'm hoping this program will fit the bill.

Cheers!~