Drawing units

[Anonymous]

I started a blank autocad drawing, now how to change the units of this drawing to mm?

All I saw about setting units was when I click Autocad icon at the very top left, then I click options, then under user preferences tab there is an insertion scale which was in inches and I made it mm.

But this means my drawing is in mm now or what? If not from where can I make sure I am drawing in mm?

I mean for example when I am drawing a line, and when type 5 for length, i want it to mean 5 mm. and so on...

[Anonymous]

I started a blank autocad drawing, now how to change the units of this drawing to mm?

All I saw about setting units was when I click Autocad icon at the very top left, then I click options, then under user preferences tab there is an insertion scale which was in inches and I made it mm.

But this means my drawing is in mm now or what? If not from where can I make sure I am drawing in mm?

I mean for example when I am drawing a line, and when type 5 for length, i want it to mean 5 mm. and so on...

[pendean · Accepted solution]

-DWGUNITS command, follow the prompts at the commandline.

[pendean · Accepted solution]

-DWGUNITS command, follow the prompts at the commandline.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> now how to change the units of this drawing to mm?

If you started with ACADISO.DWT then you are on Millimeters, you can start command _UNITS to verify that.

>> under user preferences tab

These 2 settings are only valid if your current drawing file and a different dwg-file from which you want to insert objects is set to "no units" (which I would avoid).

- alfred -

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> now how to change the units of this drawing to mm?

If you started with ACADISO.DWT then you are on Millimeters, you can start command _UNITS to verify that.

>> under user preferences tab

These 2 settings are only valid if your current drawing file and a different dwg-file from which you want to insert objects is set to "no units" (which I would avoid).

- alfred -

[rkmcswain]

@Anonymous wrote:

I mean for example when I am drawing a line, and when type 5 for length, i want it to mean 5 mm. and so on...

At the most basic level, in AutoCAD and probably any other CAD program, when you draw something 5 (units long), that 5 can be mm, inches, feet, yards, miles, light years, or even some fictional unit of measure. True, there are some tools designed to help users deal with specific units, but even if you did nothing, your "5" can certainly be 5 mm.

[rkmcswain]

@Anonymous wrote:

I mean for example when I am drawing a line, and when type 5 for length, i want it to mean 5 mm. and so on...

At the most basic level, in AutoCAD and probably any other CAD program, when you draw something 5 (units long), that 5 can be mm, inches, feet, yards, miles, light years, or even some fictional unit of measure. True, there are some tools designed to help users deal with specific units, but even if you did nothing, your "5" can certainly be 5 mm.