Drawing surveyors units in Autocad LT 2021

[tmjdds41]

I've tried all the listings on Youtube about drawing surveyor's units in AutoCad LT 2021 and can not get it to work. I was able to do this in my old AutoCad LT 97. Is this even possible with the new version?

Please help!

Thank you!

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Greetings @tmjdds41 

Absolutely nothing has changed between the two versions: perhaps a quick review of the HELP page on the topic might help with the correct methodology

[RobDraw]

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@tmjdds41 wrote:

I've tried all the listings on Youtube about drawing surveyor's units in AutoCad LT 2021 and can not get it to work. I was able to do this in my old AutoCad LT 97. Is this even possible with the new version?

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Of course, it is possible. I'm sure all of those "listings" couldn't be wrong.

There are a number of ways to do it and are quite different from each other. How would you like to do it?

[tmjdds41 · Accepted solution]

Pendean, thanks for your help.

I just tried it one more time, but this time switched to "engineering" units. I DO NOT recall any of the on-line tutorials mentioning this specifically. In fact you didn't say which units to use. I suppose this is just a given for those using this all the time. In any case, I can rest comfortably tonight having mastered this.

"They" say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. Well, over the last two days, I thought I was going insane. I kept trying different settings but never the engineering one.

Thank you!

tom

[RobDraw]

You're welcome.

[pendean]

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@tmjdds41 wrote:

...in fact you didn't say which units to use. ...

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I assumed anyone / everyone asking for surveyor units already had that or know to do that. My bad.