I want 1 unit = 1 cm. I'm using an iso template. When I draw 1 unit, it's 1mm, not 1 cm. How can I go about resolving this?
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"How do you know that it is 1 mm?"
I draw 1 unit in paper space, and it's clear that the units are mm.
I've set -dwgunits to cm, but it still draws in mm.
Expanding on what maxim wrote, layouts (paper space) are assumed to be millimeters for metric paper and inches for imperial paper. You *can* get away with other units (e.g. meters) but then you have to start taking into account different scale factors for things like viewport scales and text heights. We've received a number of civil drawings like this and they are a royal PITA to work with. Treat a layout as being "paper units" and everything else follows smoothly.
Under ideal circumstances a layout can be plotted on its set paper size (A1, letter, etc.) at a scale of 1:1 with everything fitting.
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