Drawing setup: mm AND m²?

[alexander.garber]

Hi,

as the title imposes i'd like to have my Drawing units set to mm and the unit for Area set to m².

However, when setting it up in the Drawing Setup, it still gives me all calculated areas (via Properties or Measure tool) in mm².

Anyone knows how to get it right?

[pendean]

In your file, type -DWGUNITS (there is a dash in the name, don't skip it) and see if that is what you need.

[alexander.garber]

thanks fo your answer.

unfortunately this doesn't do the trick, as there is no opion for areas (and besides that it pretty much does the same as _AECDWGSETUP - doesn' it?)

kind regards 

[GrantsPirate · Accepted solution]

Use Field, Object, select object, pick the button for Additional Format, edit the conversion factor for your needs. Now use Field, Object when needing to label the area. Not what you were after but it gets you there.

[alexander.garber]

Arr, thats a nice work around!

as you said, not exactly whar i was looking for but it does the trick. Thanks