topic Re: Changing units on 2d drawing in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Changing units on 2d drawing

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:44:10 GMT

I have a drawing template created in MM units and I need to create inch drawings also. I would like to use the same template. When I create a drawing from design, choosing my drawing template also prevents me from selecting Inches as a drawing unit. If I accept MM units and proceed, then I have a drawing where again, I cannot change the drawing units.

Searches of the forum show that this is a long-time outstanding problem. Are you going to fix this? Is this capability restriction present in the paid version of Fusion 360 also? As others have pointed out, this is a fundamental shortcoming when comparing Fusion 360 to any other CAD product.

Re: Changing units on 2d drawing

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 01:02:35 GMT

I'd like to follow this up by saying this isn't a bash post. I literally cannot find any workaround for this. It doesn't seem possible to export the title block as a DWG so I can import it into a new inches-format template. It does not seem possible to copy title blocks into the copy/paste buffer. How do I create and maintain MM and Inch drawing templates that are otherwise the same?

As a new user, I find the difficulty of this seemingly trivial problem discouraging and it may stop me from investing further effort into moving my business to the Fusion 360 product.

Re: Changing units on 2d drawing

TimeraAutodesk — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:34:08 GMT

@Anonymous we really appreciate the input. You're right that this is a current limitation, the only workaround is to recreate the title block in the second template. As always, we will follow up the initial feature release (in this case of Custom Title Blocks) with additional releases to round out the functionality based on customer feedback like yours. I've made a note that this is a workflow that should be addressed in the future. Thanks for your patience.

-Timera

Re: Changing units on 2d drawing

tedWC6CG — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:01:43 GMT

This is a huge flaw in the software.

What we are talking about is a simple task (save mm template to inches, change units, save, done). To "recreate" said template could be hours of work for each size template for everyone out here using your software. vs a few hours of work for a programmer on your end to fix it for everyone using the software.

Re: Changing units on 2d drawing

gobluejd — Fri, 31 May 2019 13:45:11 GMT

I do not see this in the future timeline. When will this be implemented???

It's so frustrating that this software is so superior, yet limited at the same time. Between this and NPT modeled threads (for me it's 3D printing) I have to do so much more work to get around the limitations. UGH.

Re: Changing units on 2d drawing

tedWC6CG — Fri, 31 May 2019 14:01:34 GMT

@gobluejd wrote:
I do not see this in the future timeline. When will this be implemented???

It's so frustrating that this software is so superior, yet limited at the same time. Between this and NPT modeled threads (for me it's 3D printing) I have to do so much more work to get around the limitations. UGH.

@gobluejd The fact that all of your custom threads get left behind after an update and you have to manually copy and paste a text file from one nearly impossible to find folder to another is beyond me haha

Re: Changing units on 2d drawing

TimeraAutodesk — Fri, 31 May 2019 15:41:09 GMT

This is still on our long-term roadmap, and we will get to it in the future. Right now the team is focused on building out better support for DWG export, adding DXF export and basic drawing tools to the Drawings workspace. Thanks for your patience as the team is working as quickly as they can.

Re: Changing units on 2d drawing

tom__chung — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:38:18 GMT

Bumping this, It's absurd that this isn't a baked in feature...

Re: Changing units on 2d drawing

TimeraAutodesk — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:25:24 GMT

@tom__chung - This feature is currently under development... keep an eye on our public roadmap to see what the team's working on so you can start anticipating the release of new functionality.

Re: Changing units on 2d drawing

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:06:49 GMT

* Bump* Please fix this seemingly basic function

Re: Changing units on 2d drawing

TimeraAutodesk — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:08:22 GMT

@Anonymous , as noted above the team is actively working on this already.

Stay tuned to the What's New's to find out when it goes live!