Feet instead of meters

Feet instead of meters

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Feet instead of meters

CLG1972
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I have checked the units in this drawing and they are in meters, however when I try to make an alignment and then change the station labels they show as feet. Can someone please tell me how to change this? Drawing with an alignment attached.

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AllenJessup
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I haven't looked at the drawing. But I'm thinking that you either started with a foot based template or imported a foot based Alignment Label Style. Check the alignment style and make sure it is set to display in meters.

 

If you started with an imperial template. It's best to start a new drawing from a metric template and insert all your work up till now in it. If you continue in the Foot based template you'll run into this problem again and again.

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I've opened the drawing and found a mix. The SKA_Alignment Label Set is in meters. Standard is in feet.

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CLG1972
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Where is the Standard setting?

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I found the ambient settings and was able to fix this. 

 

Thanks for the help.

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This looks like a drawing that was based on a Foot based template. Someone created a metric Alignment Style but most or all of the other styles in the drawing are in Feet. Also some of the base information looks like it was create in Land Desktop. The contours that are displayed are a block that explodes to AEC_Contours. The is a Surface where all the display is turned off. This Surface is in Feet but matches the supposedly Metric elevations. This makes me suspicious of the how and why of this drawings creation.

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This is where to find the settings in the Standard Style.

 

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You're still going to have problems unless you start with a Metric Template. All of the Ambient settings are wrong and most of the Styles will be wrong.

 

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