topic Re: Why is it needed to give separate unit options,in linetype file → acad.lin for imperial units and acadiso.lin for metric units when unit for drawing area is already set ? in AutoCAD Forum

Why is it needed to give separate unit options,in linetype file → acad.lin for imperial units and acadiso.lin for metric units when unit for drawing area is already set ?

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 11:40:56 GMT

I want to know that when I already set unit for drawing then everything comes in this drawing follow that units then why is it needed to have two option for Linetype Unit ?

Re: Why is it needed to give separate unit options,in linetype file → acad.lin for imperial units and acadiso.lin for metric units when unit for drawing area is already set ?

tramber — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:44:18 GMT

In case of an exchange, at a time (a long time ago) when it was not question of insertion units, this system was already in place.

Logical : there is a 25.4/1 relation.

MEASUREMENT is the variable you can change and, I presume, change the state of these calls for definition of linetypes.

I never experimented this change, after 20 years... !

But it is the variable.

Re: Why is it needed to give separate unit options,in linetype file → acad.lin for imperial units and acadiso.lin for metric units when unit for drawing area is already set ?

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:02:06 GMT

How are you setting the units for the drawing area?

Re: Why is it needed to give separate unit options,in linetype file → acad.lin for imperial units and acadiso.lin for metric units when unit for drawing area is already set ?

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 08:16:41 GMT

Simply type,

→ UNIT,enter

Re: Why is it needed to give separate unit options,in linetype file → acad.lin for imperial units and acadiso.lin for metric units when unit for drawing area is already set ?

RobDraw — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 11:48:57 GMT

Why ask why? AutoCAD at it's core is unitless. When units are added the complications and computations begin.