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    Registered: ‎04-04-2012

    Changing Units on a existing drawing

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    04-04-2012 08:27 AM

    I have a venue drawing that is in mm and I need to convert it to ft/inch so I can update and get dimensions from it.  Can this be done so when I change the format in drawing units it will update the drawing units?

     

    Current settings.

    Drawing units

    Length:

    Type - Decimal

    Percisin - 0

     

    Angle:

    Type - Decimal Degrees

    Precision - 0

     

    Insertion Scale:

    Unitless

     

    Thanks

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    Patchy
    Posts: 5,311
    Registered: ‎09-16-2009

    Re: Changing Units on a existing drawing

    04-04-2012 08:40 AM in reply to: Brett_2000

    Your drawing doesn't know it's mm or inches, km.... it only knows one thing length, so you have to scale the drawing,

    or you can leave it as it is and add dimension factor to it.

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    Re: Changing Units on a existing drawing

    04-04-2012 08:51 AM in reply to: Patchy

    How would I do that?

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    Patchy
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    Re: Changing Units on a existing drawing

    04-04-2012 09:24 AM in reply to: Brett_2000

    Like this

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    DSM_dude
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    Re: Changing Units on a existing drawing

    04-05-2012 01:48 PM in reply to: Patchy

    Create a toolbar with a button. Use the following as the buttom command.

     

    ^C^C-dwgunits;2;2;4;no;no;no;^C^C(IF (NOT C:smileyfrustrated:CALE-LIST)(LOAD "SCALE-LIST"));SCALELISTREM;SCALELISTIMP;

     

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