topic Re: Units command? in AutoCAD Forum

Units command?

BillW435 — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:30:19 GMT

I might have missed something - never used the units setup command. I have always gone to Annotate - Dimensions, then set up all units. What is purpose of Units command?

Thank

Bill (started learning drafting in 1958, still learning)

Re: Units command?

AllenJessup — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:51:35 GMT

If you're talking about AutoCAD based products. The UNITS command controls how the program displays angles and distances from the drawing. If you have one unit long ( I like to consider these Drawing Units ). So if your units are set to Feet. The program will report that the line is 1 foot long. Set to meters it reports 1 meter long. The exception is that if the drawing is set to Architectural it will report that the 1 Drawing Unit long line is 12 inches long.

Changing the setting changes nothing in the drawing. If you have a foot based drawing and change the units to meters. The 1 Drawing Unit line remains one unit long. It just will now say it's one meter long instead of 1 foot long.

Re: Units command?

BillW435 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:41:54 GMT

Thank you!

Re: Units command?

AllenJessup — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:10:34 GMT

You're welcome.

BTW. You should explore what forums are available.

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