Exporting Adobe Illustrator CS files to DXF or DWG

How do I export Adobe Illustrator CS files to AutoCAD DXF or DWG files and still keep the size 100%. The engineer opening my .DXF and .DWG files said my drawings are over 300% larger than actual.
Thx in advance!

Hello Narss, to answer your question earlier, my Professor showed me that you can rescale you drawing by dividing the drawing by 3% (.0333).
Sincerely,
Jimmy T.

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(...) you are trying to solve one hell of a crooked workflow on the wrong end and the one fatal flaw being that you insist on using an office tool to create layouts and expecting it to render print-ready documents. That just cannot work. Even the most stubborn tech writers I occasionally work with, recognize the need for eventually firing this at InDesign/ InCopy/ Framemaker and associated server versions and fuse the imported RTF/ Word documents and illustrations based on template layouts, scripting and rule-based formatting, which can all happen automnatically on a server with the respective software.
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