topic Re: Changing Offset units in AutoCAD Forum

Changing Offset units

oholteyE3GGM — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:01:55 GMT

Good Morning,

I've changed my drawing units from inches to feet and am trying to change my dimstyle to decimal feet ie 18.50'. However, when I offset a line it does so in inches (offseting 2.5 inches rather than 2.5 feet) and when I dimension a line it does it in decimal inches 18' - 6.00"

How do I change this?

Thanks

Re: Changing Offset units

pendean — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:30:28 GMT

>>>... I've changed my drawing units from inches to feet ...<<<
And how did you do that exactly? Simply changing "units" is not enough if you did not also have to scale up by 12 your entire model too.

Explain. Or go ahead and scale your drawing up (12inches=1foot) and call it a day.

Re: Changing Offset units

oholteyE3GGM — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:44:54 GMT

Pendean once again your response is not helpful. I am asking what to do, not what not to do.

I did change units and I did change dwgunits and the drawing is at the correct scale.

When I measure dimensions I get 216 inches. Or I can change the dimstyle and as I noted it will give me 18' -6.00"

However, I want 18.5'.

If you can't help please don't respond.

With that, how do you block users?

Re: Changing Offset units

S.Faris — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:52:16 GMT

That was a rude reply that you gave to @pendean .I am deleting my posted solution. Sorry.

Re: Changing Offset units

oholteyE3GGM — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:49:44 GMT

I did that. It didn't work. Do I need to start with a new drawing?

Re: Changing Offset units

Patchy — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:04:29 GMT

Like this?

Re: Changing Offset units

oholteyE3GGM — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:19:30 GMT

Yes, Exactly

This box you show. That is Tolerance format

What method are you choosing?

Re: Changing Offset units

oholteyE3GGM — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:27:55 GMT

My primary unit box looks different too.

Re: Changing Offset units

pendean — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:45:40 GMT

Oh... grow up: it looks like I simply misunderstood your issue, that's all, just say so. Why all the drama?

Does INSERTing the problem file into a working template file fix your issue? Otherwise post a portion of yoru DWG file with the problem here, lets see your work and settings for ourselves.

@Patchy is using an older AutoCSAD version and why their pop-up looks different.

Re: Changing Offset units

oholteyE3GGM — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:59:21 GMT

You need to grow up. Typical Nick Burns from SNL. Please don't response to me ever again. You always seem to misunderstand. You have posted to my comments several times and have never been helpful. Be the big man Nick and walk away. Thanks

Re: Changing Offset units

Kent1Cooper — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 22:01:00 GMT

@oholteyE3GGM wrote:

....

When I measure dimensions I get 216 inches. Or I can change the dimstyle and as I noted it will give me 18' -6.00"

However, I want 18.5'.

....

AutoCAD works in "drawing units," which can represent anything desired. In standard Architectural- or Engineering-units usage, a drawing unit is an inch, and that's the only way to get it to do Dimensions in feet and inches format. If you get 216 [or 222 if it's really 18'-6"], if that means 216 drawing units, then you haven't truly changed your drawing for units to represent feet. You need your 18.5-foot-long thing to be 18.5 drawing units long. Scale the entire drawing down to 1/12 size, and your drawing unit will then represent a foot, such a thing will be that long, and Offsetting by 2.5 units will do it by 2.5 feet. Define a Dimension Style using decimal units with a foot-mark suffix [because there isn't a built-in mode that does feet with the foot mark except in feet-and-inches].

Alternatively, you could [but I don't recommend it] leave your drawing unit at an inch, and use a Measurement scale [in the Primary Units tab in the Dimension Style dialog box] of 1/12, so that the 222-unit-long measurement will come out as 18.5 units. Again, you'll need to use decimal units and add the foot mark as a suffix. I don't recommend it because it will only "work" inside Dimensions -- things like the LIST or DIST commands will still give results in inches, and that thing will still be 222 units long, not 18.5.

Re: Changing Offset units

p.m — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 18:30:14 GMT

This should be a simple thing to do, but as usual we get BS answers that are far flung workarounds that don't work.

The question is a simple one. How to offset in millimeters?

Re: Changing Offset units

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 18:40:09 GMT

@p.m wrote:

This should be a simple thing to do, but as usual we get BS answers that are far flung workarounds that don't work.

The question is a simple one. How to offset in millimeters?

In what way are you unable to Offset in millimeters? How are you trying to do it? What is not happening as you expect? Is your drawing unit a millimeter?