Wrong scaling when placing in InDesign

Hello,
I have a scaled drawing from AutoCad that was saved as pdf and it is scaled. when I try to place it in InDesign it comes in the wrong scale. Does anyone know why this is happening?
Thanks.

Hello Steve,
Thanks a lot for your answer. No autocad is not the problem and it comes out fine in Adobe. I also tryed it on Illustrator and the scale came out fine. So I still don't know what the problem is.

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