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I have a drawing from a contractor that is dimensioned in metric units. I have been tasked with converting the displayed units to inches for our machine shop. I have tried to display alternate units but they don't appear, yes, I did check the "display alternate units" box. I am using AutoCAD 2013.
Describe in way more detail what all you did, you have to do more than just check a box in DIMSTYLE command. You also need to ensure you selected the correct Dimstyle. Then Update all the existing dimensions most likely afterwards. OR you can do the same in PROPERTIES command after selecting all the dimensions on screen. Use the ALTERNATE UNITS section of course.
Perhaps the dimension text has been manually overriden? If this is the case, it could make your job really easy by just removing the override, or it could indicate the drawing is not dimensionally correct and they used manual overides to to "fix" the problem with the model.
Ok so used "DIMSTYLE". clicked MODIFY, Alt Units tab, I checked "display alt. units", changed unit format to architectural, precision to 0'-1/8", muliplier for alt units set at .0393701.
I've also tried to use -dwgunits, selected 1. Inches, 4. Architectural. 3. 1/8" Precision, Yes, Scale inserted objects, Yes, match INSUNITS to drawing units, Yes, scale objects in current drawing to reflect change.
Ok so I clicked the Dimension and then "select similiar", then the power dimensioning ribbon appears above and from there I dropped down the Dim Text menu and changed my primary units to Architectural. That changed all the dimensions so thank you for that.
I have to do this to a few more drawings so I tested this method on another drawing and when I change the primary units some of the dimensions didn't change, including the one I originally selected before "select similar." Do you have any suggestions for that?
At the commandline type DIM1 , then UPDATE and select all the dimensions. If you are using something other than plain AutoCAD you might want to post in that forum instead.
I am still curious, why will you not try the PROPERTIES command option to do this?
Most of my dimensions are now in inches. Some of them are still displayed in millimeters after I updated them. Do you know why those dimensions did not update with the others?
It does not. The dimensions that stayed in metric form were underlined (not sure if that is significant) and when I MATCHPROP them the underline goes away but the value remains the same.
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