DWGUNITS & WBLOCK ISSUE

[ritchie]

Hi,

I have opened an acadiso.dwt template and set the DWGUNITS to use 6 for meters.

I then draw a box 1,1 and use the wblock command to export the drawing.

Upon opening the drawing, the scale of the box is still correct, but once I open the DWGUNITS the drawing is now set to 3 (mm)

How do I WBLOCK and maintain the DWGUNITS to 6(m) ? Am I missing something? Thought I'd ask.

[cadffm]

Hi

>>"I have opened an acadiso.dwt template and set the DWGUNITS"

I don't know why you do that, but okay. (it creates a aec dwg setup, for usual used in toolset and not necessary in the plain AutoCAD/LT world, just a mass of waste / that is why you can't find that command in your help[F1])

>>"I then draw a box 1,1 and use the wblock command to export the drawing."

>>"Upon opening the drawing, the scale of the box is still correct, but once I open the DWGUNITS the drawing is now set to 3 (mm)

Yes, Wblock is not designed to hand eaec dwg setups

>>"How do I WBLOCK and maintain the DWGUNITS to 6(m) ?"

May I ask first, why are you handle that command? As AutoCAD-User  you have to look at the INSUNITS

>>"Am I missing something?"

No

[pendean · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous wrote:
>>>...I have opened an acadiso.dwt template and set the DWGUNITS to use 6 for meters.
I then draw a box 1,1 and...>>>

Why not just use SAVEAS command instead of WBLOCK? Where did you learn that unfortunate workflow if I may ask, curious for sure?

HTH

[ritchie · Accepted solution]

>"I have opened an acadiso.dwt template and set the DWGUNITS"

I don't know why you do that, but okay. (it creates a aec dwg setup, for usual used in toolset and not necessary in the plain AutoCAD/LT world, just a mass of waste / that is why you can't find that command in your help[F1]) ----Then what would you recommend to use as a metric template? I wasnt aware acadiso.dwt was aec base (frankly I dont even know what that is). I just want to set up a drawing in metric and wblock out with the same parameters.





>>"I then draw a box 1,1 and use the wblock command to export the drawing."

>>"Upon opening the drawing, the scale of the box is still correct, but once I open the DWGUNITS the drawing is now set to 3 (mm)

Yes, Wblock is not designed to hand eaec dwg setups ---- ok like I said I never knew that acadiso.dwt was aec based. i thought it was a simple environment that was setup as metric.



>>"How do I WBLOCK and maintain the DWGUNITS to 6(m) ?"

May I ask first, why are you handle that command? As AutoCAD-User you have to look at the INSUNITS
----- i am not inserting... i am wblocking.... theoretically I would have thought that the dwgunits would carry over to the block/drawing being made. If not, what dwt should I be using? if you say acadiso.dwt shouldnt be the case, since it was not designed to do that....


>>"Am I missing something?"

No --- thanks for the help though... dont consider myself an expert, but trying to learn the system and jargon..

[cadffm · Accepted solution]

Hi,

you missunderstood one part of my answer:

If you run Autocad or LT and the files are for these programs

>>"Then what would you recommend to use as a metric template?"

AcadIso.dwt is the right one!

Start a new drawing based on AcadIso.dwt and change INSUNITS to Meter(6)

{Don't start the undocumented command -dwgunits}

Insunits is the Unit for this DWG.

For internal steps like Insert or Xref, this is the important setting.

>>"the drawing is now set to 3 (mm)"

No, there is NO aec setting inside the new file (not 3 or 1, NO setting)

But if you start this command, Autocad need a value as default and in case of a metric setting(measurement=1), the default scale for an aec setting is 3 and for an imperial it is 1.

If don't know why you are using this command, dont use it.

(Starting this command adds tge aec stuff to this file)

>>"i thought it was a simple environment that was setup as metric."

And it is! But the undocumented command you used add the aec deg setting into the file.


>>"---- i am not inserting... i am wblocking....  "

I know, but the question is WHY are you intresting in DWGUNITS,

it is not common for AutoCAD use.

>>" but trying to learn the system and jargon.."

For new files: Start with acadiso.dwt, set insunits, thats it.

For files you allready added an aec dwg setup and to get rid of an aec dwg setup, run -ExportToAutoCAD

[ritchie · Accepted solution]

True….I was doing multiple drawings in different scales… hence the wblock to save them separately and make a palette… just seeing cad do some weird things after the wblock…