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Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inches

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Anonymous
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Converted My drawing from ft to inch and when drawing a line I still get inches

Hello there!

 

I appreciate any input on this. Here is my question:

 

My drawing was in inches and I used -DWGUNITS to converted to feet. An object that had a dimension of 72" after the conversion to feet now shows a dimension of 6 (72"=6'). The problem is that the dimension of six is actually 6" not 6' that I want. I've done previous conversion and haven't had this issue.  Please let me know what am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks,

A

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Message 2 of 11
imadHabash
in reply to: Anonymous

Hi,

>> Converted My drawing from ft to inch

>> My drawing was in inches and I used -DWGUNITS to converted to feet.

i think that there is a conflict between your post headline and the content !!! 

>> The problem is that the dimension of six is actually 6" not 6' that I want. 

to get 6" - as i understand - i suggest to change your dimension style unit format to Engineering ( see below image ) 

 

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Imad Habash

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Message 3 of 11
Anonymous
in reply to: imadHabash

@imadHabash Thank's for your answer. I already did that, when I draw a dimension it gives me the dimension in feet just like I  want it to be set up, but when I measure/draw a line, it only draws it in inches not in feet.

 

Modify units.PNG

Message 4 of 11
pendean
in reply to: Anonymous

Post your DWG file, let us see what other settings there are that may have been missed too, like your DIMSTYLE settings.

 

 

Message 5 of 11
Anonymous
in reply to: pendean

@pendean Please see attached doc.

Message 6 of 11
pendean
in reply to: Anonymous

Your DIMSTYLE is set to multiply all results by 12:

 

3.PNG

 

Your DIMSTYLE is also not set correctly for text size: are you manually fixing each dimension after placement?

 

 

Message 7 of 11
Anonymous
in reply to: pendean

@pendean that is correct. That's the only way that it can reflect the correct dimension, when I set up to factor 1 it gives me the dimension to inches. I converted this drawing from inches to ft and its not reflecting that correctly. why?

1.JPG

Message 8 of 11
pendean
in reply to: Anonymous

-DWGUNITS has absolutely nothing to do with DIMSTYLE settings.

 

See attached and below, this is how you set it for feet: and remember, your unit is always a foot.

Capture.PNGCapture2.PNG

 

 

Message 9 of 11
Kent1Cooper
in reply to: Anonymous

You have it set up for Architectural Units, in which a drawing unit is an inch, despite your -DWGUNITS setting [which, as I understand it, has more to do with the drawing's relationship to other drawings  than internal conditions, but it's not in my vanilla AutoCAD -- only in overlay programs].  The same is true for Engineering Units.  If you want a drawing unit to be a foot, you have to use Decimal Units.  Civil Engineers do this all the time, and they define their Dimension Styles to add a foot mark as a suffix.  The drawback is that your [for example] 2'-6" dimension will come out as 2.5'.  I'm not sure there's any way around that.

Kent Cooper, AIA
Message 10 of 11
Anonymous
in reply to: pendean

@pendean thank you! for the first screen shot (I'm clear).

For the second one if I try to enter a dimension in feet and inches I get a red box, so I need to have it in engineering or architectural type length.

When I made the change and draw a line of 6' its way off in comparison to the actual 6 feet object in the drawing. When I measure the line that I draw at 6' (in yellow)  and I add a dimension I actually get 75' instead of the 6' that I draw.

1.JPG2.JPG

Thanks!

Message 11 of 11
pendean
in reply to: Anonymous

With AutoCAD, you cannot have dimensions in ARCH or ENG (inches) if your DWG file is feet. You have to decide which way is more important.

 

How did you dimension the line your drew? Are you forgetting your DWG file is now in feet, so 1-unit=1-foot? See attached white line next to your bench, it is 6-feet long drawn by entering only 6 when asking for length.

 

 

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