Set default export units for DXF

[_ritchie]

Hi, it would be great if there was a preference or option at export time to set the DXF units.

Currently I design primarily in metric, but my waterjet guy uses inches, and DXF doesn't store the units for some archaic and boneheaded reason. To send the waterjet a path to cut I need to first change the workspace units to inches, do the export, and then convert back to mm to continue working. This gets tiresome extremely quickly, and is also error-prone as I don't always remember to do this currently necessary step.

If the Fusion 360 team could (a) set a default export unit, (b) allow me to choose at time of export, or (c) motivate the world to fix DXF (ha!), this would make this workflow significantly more joyful.

Thanks for considering!

[HughesTooling]

The unit info is stored in the DXF files exported from Fusion it's the program your water jet guy has that's the problem. You can test this by exporting the DXF as mm and inches then use insert DXF back into Fusion and it will read the units from the DXF. Rhino and QCad read the units in DXFs exported from fusion as another test.

Mark