topic Re: Dimensioning - architectural in AutoCAD Forum

Dimensioning - architectural

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:06:36 GMT

Question:

I have changed the units to read architectural - feet, inches.

I am able to draw in feet, inches... however when i go to dimension drawing it defaults back to decimal.

Any ideas how i can maintain the dimensioning to architectural.

Thanks

Re: Dimensioning - architectural

Patchy — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:10:56 GMT

Are you using STANDARD for all of them?

Re: Dimensioning - architectural

lbellino4 — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:11:23 GMT

You might want to check the Dimstyle that you're using and what unit format you're using there.

Re: Dimensioning - architectural

mgarcesUX9HW — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:14:57 GMT

hi changing the units will only change the drawing units however you should set up also a dimension in ft or inch in the dimension manager and set it to current before dimensioning you drawing

Re: Dimensioning - architectural

cwr-pae — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:20:39 GMT

type DIMSTYLE <enter>, select the default style or create new and set it as default, on the "Primary Units" tab change decimal to architectural, set the precision, ok and close.

Re: Dimensioning - architectural

pendean — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:30:26 GMT

Did you remember to use DIMSTYLE command to set your dimension style to ARCH units too?
Simply doing it once in UNITS command is not enough: your teacher/tutor/guidebook can explain it to you if needed.

HTH

Re: Dimensioning - architectural

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:22:46 GMT

Thank you,
I will check the tutorial.

Michael Berger

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