Drawing units are in inches and they need to be in feet

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Drawing units are in inches and they need to be in feet

Anonymous
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The file I am working with is measuring everything as if the units are inches.  For example, when I measure something that is 10 feet, it tells me it's 10 inches.  I have tried changing the units in the units box, but that doesn't do anything.  The drawing thinks 10 feet is 10 inches.

 

How do I get the drawing to be in feet and not inches?

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john.vellek
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HI @Anonymous,

 

Try using -DWGUNITS instead of units. Please also tell me how you are measuring the distances. If you are using decimal it will look different than if you are using a different units setting.

 

 

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Hi I used the dwgunits.  The unit was already set to feet.  

 

I have changed the units to architectural, engineering, and decimal and all measure 10 feet as inches.  How I discovered this was I put in a dimension and noticed it was displaying 10" instead of 10'-0", which is what it is supposed to display. 

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john.vellek
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Hi @Anonymous,

 

Can you share the drawing with me?  Is this an architectural plan and you are working in surveying units? You might actually have to scale the geometry in the file to get this to feet.

 

You might also check your dimstyle to see if there is any scaling going on there.

 

 

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Anonymous
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I probably should have posted this in Civil 3d forum.  The thing that doesn't make sense, I have an alignment reference that measures everything in feet.  So the alignment is in feet, but everything else is in inches.  How does that work?

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john.vellek
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Hi @Anonymous,

 

Take a look at the units in the dimstyle. If set to Decimal then everything should work properly.

 

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We don't want dimension in decimal.  We want feet and inches.  I am starting to think the alignment is in inches as well, despite it saying it's in feet. 

 

I'm gathering there isn't an easy way to fix this issue?

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john.vellek
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Hi @Anonymous,

 

The units are indeed feet. But switching your units to architectural will not reflect this as a unit is a unit in AutoCAD.

 

You have a couple of options. You can insert this drawing into another as an xref and scale it by a factor of twelve. This id probably the easiest if you are creating new geometry on top of it. If all you need to do is put some architectural dimensions on it then you can create a new dimstyle with a Scale factor of 12.

 

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Anonymous
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Thank you.  That solves the issue!

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Anonymous
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Please make the drawing units in feets and inches both 

let us assume we increase the scale factor to 12 and then write 5' while making line and if dimension it it will show 60' and it is necessary to write in feet because many dimensions are not in perfect feets they are like 5'2"

so please make it like revit software unit system

 

 

Thanks

Regard...

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ngibsonXNBGF
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I had the same issue and was provided with a simple fix. Use the command ddunits, its a leftover from AutoCad. Change the Length Type from Architectural to Decimal. This resolved the issue for me. 

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Kent1Cooper
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@Anonymous wrote:

Please make the drawing units in feets and inches both 

let us assume we increase the scale factor to 12 and then write 5' while making line and if dimension it it will show 60' and it is necessary to write in feet because many dimensions are not in perfect feets they are like 5'2"

so please make it like revit software unit system

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If you want inches included in things like Dimensions, your drawing unit must be an inch.  When you write 5' while making a line, it will be 60 drawing units long, but not 60 feet long.  If you want to use a foot as the drawing unit, you must use Decimal units [that's what Civil Engineers typically do], not Architectural or Engineering units [both of which use an inch as the drawing unit].  But then you won't be able to have Dimensions show feet and inches.  In Decimal units, it won't accept 5' as an input -- just write the 5, without the feet mark.

 

We here are just other Users like you, with limited monitoring by Autodesk employees who are not the programmers.  If you want to make a request for this kind of change, go to the >Product Feedback Page<.  But I can't imagine they will change it for you, given that there are about forty years of drawings made with a drawing unit representing an inch.

Kent Cooper, AIA

jttillman88
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When you do this method you will need to decrease the text size, leader arrow size, etc. by a factor of 12.

Also, my dimensions were showing up in inches, and I needed them to show feet, so I put 1/12 in the scale factor, and then INcreased my text and other sizes.

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