Thanks for your response. I really appreciate it. So I tried your 2 further tests (cutting & pasting as well as drawing a test rectangle) and I got the same result as with the original svg. The 200mm object in inkscape measured 282 in Autocad. So to be clear your result was the same as mine with...

I have an svg which I want to laser cut and I need a dxf format (my software won't accept any of the other suggested formats) I read a few articles that said you need to select the scale as px in the export but although I see the sizes updated, they are still not right. Steps to reproduce: - I creat...