Scale changes when importing DXF to Ai

Hi,
When importing DXF to Ai (V15.1), the scale/size of the object (a gear) is all wrong....
Is there a way to keep the actual size of the drawing to be identical to the one in the DXF file?
Thank you in advance.

In AI, you can change the units in preferences to cm or mm. You create the DXF file in cm or mm units in CAD, and when you OPEN the DXF in AI, you can choose the scale = 1 , units = 1 millimeters or centimeters.  Older versions of AI had scaling problems with DXF that were never resolved, but I think AI 5.1 has resolved that issue.
Are you having a scaling issue that is unrelated to inches verses mm or cm ?

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