topic Re: Default Units in AutoCAD Forum

Default Units

Jkane2022 — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 23:40:54 GMT

How can I change the default drawing units, so instead of changing from inches to millimeters every time I start a new drawing, it is already in millimeters when I begin? I use metric much more often.

Re: Default Units

Patchy — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 02:36:56 GMT

Use command -dwgunits after start a new drawing, change it to meter, then save it as acadiso.dwt

Re: Default Units

Jkane2022 — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 03:01:24 GMT

I'd rather be able to save it to acad.dwt because it uses ansi dimensions. But I tried and it didn't have an effect when starting a new drawing

Re: Default Units

ritzofriya — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 07:19:54 GMT

(SETVAR "INSUNITS" 4)

Re: Default Units

Jkane2022 — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 07:54:09 GMT

This time, it changes the units to millimeters in the one drawing, but if I close and open a new drawing it's back to inches. I want it to be millimeters for every drawing, but I also want to keep ansi dimensions

Re: Default Units

ritzofriya — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 08:40:02 GMT

What I do means, prepared a program to enable all settings asper my requirement.

example: unit, line weight, ortho, snap, all so once i run the program , it will make ready for my requirements, try that if you feel useful. also i have all my blocks and layers in one group also page setup manager, so for me all will be there in one click.

Re: Default Units

Valentin_CAD — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 15:09:54 GMT

@Jkane2022 ,

Save your custom drawing template as (*.dwt) and set the path in the OPTIONS "Default Template File Name for QNEW".

OPTIONS > Default Template File Name for QNEW