saved dxf file is huge

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After tracing a bitmap and saving the file in dxf format that works fine, but when you open the dxf file in another program
the drawing is HUGE, often time unuseable because it is to big to open. Example, a one inch circle after saving
as dxf then opening in a cad program is two feet or more in diameter, can anything be done to remedy this?

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Ryan Lerch (ryanlerch) said :
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could you just scale down the traced object in inkscape before you export to DXF?
also what units are being used in your inkscape document, maybe play around a bit with those before you export.

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