Create Scale Button for Tool Palette

Create Scale Button for Tool Palette

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Create Scale Button for Tool Palette

Anonymous
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Quick description of issue. We have to routinely change our drawings from inches to mm. The solution so far has been to scale drawings by 25.4, which in essence changes our inches to mm.

 

Issue we are having is that some of our drafters forget to scale. I want to make this dummy proof. 

 

Is there a way to create a button on the tool palette that will automatically scale everything by 25.4 (all my drafters will be using a standardized tool palette)? 

Ideally it's just a single button that automatically does the 25.4 math. I don't care about scale origin. I'm not great at creating buttons. So I humbly ask for help. Thank you

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RobDraw
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If they already forget to scale, a button isn't going to help them remember, is it?


Rob

Drafting is a breeze and Revit doesn't always work the way you think it should.
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Kent1Cooper
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^C^C_.scale all;;0,0 25.4

 

But consider whether to do this:

 

^C^C_.layer _thaw * _on * _unlock * ;_.regen _.scale all ;0,0 25.4 _.layerp

Kent Cooper, AIA
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Anonymous
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If you make things easier, people will normally do it. That's been my experience with managing people. You may have different experiences, but in my case I've been able to make things more efficient, have fewer errors, and more uniformity. In each case this is a result of me removing the "barriers."

So it may not help them not forget, but I'm also making it simpler by doing this.  

 

 

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Anonymous
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Thanks @Kent1Cooper !

 

This is going to work great. I'll mess around with both but I think the second one is better. 

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