Read the drawing units

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Is there a way to read the drawing units (the value set with the -DWGUNITS command)? I could not find any API or variable holding this information.

[Ed__Jobe]

You can use ThisDrawing.GetVariable and ThisDrawing.SetVariable to read/change these 3 variables:

INSUNITS, INSUNITSDEFTARGET, & INSUNITSDEFSOURCE

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately we already tried that, and is not what we are looking for. The value in INSUNITS* can be different from the one set with -DWGUNITS

[Jedimaster]

Are you looking for LUNITS AUNITS?

[Jedimaster]

Look into class AcUnits under AutoCAD library

acArchitectural
acDecimal
acDefaultUnits
acEngineering
acFractional
acScientific

On second though that is still not what your looking for

[Anonymous]

Yep, still not what I am looking for. To make clarify it further:

When running the -DWGUNITS command, the following text is displayed in the command window:

Command: -DwgUnits

Drawing units:
1. Inches
2. Feet
3. Millimeters
4. Centimeters
5. Decimeters
6. Meters
Unit for length <3>:

[...]

We're interrested in reading that <3> value.

[martijn]

It's an old topic, but I was looking for the same and I've found it.

<code>
Dim DWGUnits As Integer
DWGUnits = ThisDrawing.GetVariable("INSUNITS")
</code>

Hope this helps any people looking for the same in the future

[Jedimaster]

Was just working with INSUNITS... weird.