Measurements and distance 2014

[Anonymous]

I have change my units from mm to meters but

when I make any drawings it apears 1000 or 100 when I really want 1.00 meters

how do I change this?

[Ajilal.Vijayan]

Welcome to Autodesk forum!! 

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@Anonymous wrote:

I have change my units from mm to meters but

when I make any drawings it apears 1000 or 100 when I really want 1.00 meters

how do I change this?

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If you are referring to Drawing units dialogue box, this will not take any affect on what you going to draw.

AutoCAD does not use any specific units to draw anything , everything is in Drawing units.

That drawing units we need to decide , like meter or millimeter.

Good to read

So if you want to draw 1.0 meter line, you may enter 1.0 units as the length by deciding this as meter , or 1000mm as length by deciding this as millimeter.

Hope this helps.

[edwin.prakoso]

You can try to change the unit using -DWGUNITS. You need to use - as the command prefix.

It has option to scale your drawing, not just changing the drawing unit.

[Ajilal.Vijayan]

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@edwin.prakoso wrote:

You can try to change the unit using -DWGUNITS. You need to use - as the command prefix.

It has option to scale your drawing, not just changing the drawing unit.

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Thanks edwin.

Good to know this command

[edwin.prakoso]

You're welcome 

I also learned about it from someone in this forum... as it's not documented.

That's what this forum is for, right?

[Ajilal.Vijayan]

Yes, you are quite right !!