Neil,
I suspect you have created your dwg with "acad.dwt" (Most Autodesk products
default template) or any other imperial dwts. If you are metric user or
intend to use metric data you should make your default template as either
"acadiso.dwt" or "_Autodesk Civil 3D Metric templates" to have right
settings at all feature levels.
If so then by changing drawing units (in Units and Scale tab of Edit Drawing
Settings) from feet to metric wouldn't change your feature level "linear
units" setting. Invoke your "Edit Drawing Setting"dialog again and go to
"Ambient Settings" tab. In this tab expand Linear, Elevation, Coordinates,
Area, Volumes and Station nodes (click on + button) and change the units
appropriately. This would change your settings to the metric for all
features.
Hope this resolves your issue
Chakri
"csoffice" wrote in message
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> I am currently evaluating Civil and Map 3D for possible upgrade from Map
5. I have no problems with surface creation other than I cannot set metric
values for contour intervals. Surface values display on screen in imperial
but contours export to metric values. I have my Drawing Settings set to
metric and a scale of 1:1000.
> Any suggestions gratefully received so that I can push for upgrade.
>
> Neil C