Scott PridhamJul 131 comment
Design unit issue DXF on Import
Unit issue looks like inch to mm problem.
Attached DXF also
Thanks for the report and the sample file, Scott — that made this easy to pin down.
You were right that it was a units problem. Your DXF was drawn in millimeters, and Design was ignoring the file's unit setting on import — so it treated those millimeter numbers as inches and brought the part in about 25× too big. (Your ~145 mm plate was landing as a ~145 inch monster.) It was specific to the Design workspace; the cutting workspaces already handled this correctly, which matches what you saw.
The fix makes Design read each DXF's own unit setting and import at the true real-world size. If a file has no unit information at all, it now follows your Settings → Preferred Units — the same behavior as the Drafting sketch importer. Shapes from the built-in Shape Generator are unaffected and still come in at their exact size.
This will be in the next release (v2.3.9). Give it a try when it lands and let me know if anything still looks off — and thanks again for the clear repro.
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