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Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inches

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 01:19:20 GMT

Hello there!

I appreciate any input on this. Here is my question:

My drawing was in inches and I used -DWGUNITS to converted to feet. An object that had a dimension of 72" after the conversion to feet now shows a dimension of 6 (72"=6'). The problem is that the dimension of six is actually 6" not 6' that I want. I've done previous conversion and haven't had this issue. Please let me know what am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Re: Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inc

imadHabash — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 06:22:54 GMT

Hi,

>> Converted My drawing from ft to inch

>> My drawing was in inches and I used -DWGUNITS to converted to feet.

i think that there is a conflict between your post headline and the content !!!

>> The problem is that the dimension of six is actually 6" not 6' that I want.

to get 6" - as i understand - i suggest to change your dimension style unit format to Engineering ( see below image )

Re: Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inc

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:47:54 GMT

@imadHabash Thank's for your answer. I already did that, when I draw a dimension it gives me the dimension in feet just like I want it to be set up, but when I measure/draw a line, it only draws it in inches not in feet.

Re: Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inc

pendean — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:19:44 GMT

Post your DWG file, let us see what other settings there are that may have been missed too, like your DIMSTYLE settings.

Re: Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inc

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:01:06 GMT

@pendean Please see attached doc.

Re: Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inc

pendean — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:20:01 GMT

Your DIMSTYLE is set to multiply all results by 12:

Your DIMSTYLE is also not set correctly for text size: are you manually fixing each dimension after placement?

Re: Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inc

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:21:45 GMT

@pendean that is correct. That's the only way that it can reflect the correct dimension, when I set up to factor 1 it gives me the dimension to inches. I converted this drawing from inches to ft and its not reflecting that correctly. why?

Re: Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inc

pendean — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:36:23 GMT

-DWGUNITS has absolutely nothing to do with DIMSTYLE settings.

See attached and below, this is how you set it for feet: and remember, your unit is always a foot.

Re: Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inc

Kent1Cooper — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:43:57 GMT

You have it set up for Architectural Units, in which a drawing unit is an inch, despite your -DWGUNITS setting [which, as I understand it, has more to do with the drawing's relationship to other drawings than internal conditions, but it's not in my vanilla AutoCAD -- only in overlay programs]. The same is true for Engineering Units. If you want a drawing unit to be a foot, you have to use Decimal Units. Civil Engineers do this all the time, and they define their Dimension Styles to add a foot mark as a suffix. The drawback is that your [for example] 2'-6" dimension will come out as 2.5'. I'm not sure there's any way around that.

Re: Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inc

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:06:23 GMT

@pendean thank you! for the first screen shot (I'm clear).

For the second one if I try to enter a dimension in feet and inches I get a red box, so I need to have it in engineering or architectural type length.

When I made the change and draw a line of 6' its way off in comparison to the actual 6 feet object in the drawing. When I measure the line that I draw at 6' (in yellow) and I add a dimension I actually get 75' instead of the 6' that I draw.

Thanks!

Re: Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inc

pendean — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:19:36 GMT

With AutoCAD, you cannot have dimensions in ARCH or ENG (inches) if your DWG file is feet. You have to decide which way is more important.

How did you dimension the line your drew? Are you forgetting your DWG file is now in feet, so 1-unit=1-foot? See attached white line next to your bench, it is 6-feet long drawn by entering only 6 when asking for length.