topic Can anyone help aligning my CAD file in desktop 10.2.1 using a conversion factor? in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/can-anyone-help-aligning-my-cad-file-in-desktop-10/m-p/221129#M12581 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Need some help aligning CAD file in desktop using a conversion factor. Anyone know how to do this?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:53:18 GMT PaulWirth 2017-02-23T21:53:18Z Can anyone help aligning my CAD file in desktop 10.2.1 using a conversion factor? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/can-anyone-help-aligning-my-cad-file-in-desktop-10/m-p/221129#M12581 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Need some help aligning CAD file in desktop using a conversion factor. Anyone know how to do this?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:53:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/can-anyone-help-aligning-my-cad-file-in-desktop-10/m-p/221129#M12581 PaulWirth 2017-02-23T21:53:18Z Re: Can anyone help aligning my CAD file in desktop 10.2.1 using a conversion factor? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/can-anyone-help-aligning-my-cad-file-in-desktop-10/m-p/221130#M12582 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Assuming by "conversion factor" you want to move, scale, and rotate the data to match another dataset, you can create a world file that has the same name as the CAD file, in the same directory, with 2 known coordinate pairs representing the CAD x,y and the dataset's corresponding x,y.</P><P>format is</P><P>CADx,CADy Targetx,Targety</P><P>CADx,CADy Targetx,Targety</P><P></P><P>Link to the help on this:</P><P><A class="link-titled" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/cad/world-files-for-cad-datasets.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/cad/world-files-for-cad-datasets.htm">World files for CAD datasets—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Best Regards,</P><P>Jim</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:50:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/can-anyone-help-aligning-my-cad-file-in-desktop-10/m-p/221130#M12582 JimCousins 2017-03-01T15:50:55Z