Scale Note meters imports right to cad but inches needs to be scaled

Scale Note meters imports right to cad but inches needs to be scaled. So if export to CAD programs sees units as units or meters it seams to export right. When inches are used it comes in to cad as the wrong things and needs to be multiplied by the 96 2.4384 39.37008
96" inces is sceen as 2.4384 on my buddies cad machine. but if I use meters and just leave things alone and act as if meters is inches all exports ok.
Problem is my camera and lights are tiny next to my 36 meter high sofa!