Autocad 2007
Autocad 2007
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I have a drawing in inches. Is there a way to convert it from inches to millimeters?
Thanks for your help....
Thanks for your help....
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RE: Autocad 2007
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers
RE: Autocad 2007
Ratso
AutoCAD and Inventor
RE: Autocad 2007
Go to your dimstyles and click on the tab that says
primary units. You can figure it our from there.
Don't waste your time scaling the drawing. If you have
to scale a drawing to get the right dimenions you should
not be drawing in AutoCAD or giving advice
for that matter. Scaling a drawing not only affects the
drawing but how the file gets trasferred.
Remeber Garbage in Garbage out.
Andy
RE: Autocad 2007
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers
RE: Autocad 2007
Borgunit had it right from the beginning.
Everyone else needs to try some experimenting on their own.
RE: Autocad 2007
Regardless, the information is still correct, the objects need to be scaled, whether or not it is done manually or automatically by Autocad.
RE: Autocad 2007
Mauro did not say anything about scaling a drawing.
He mentioned how to convert from inches to millimeters.
That is it. To convert from one unit to another or
even add a unit all you have to do is go to your
dimstyles or setvar's.
Don't make a ten second job a five hour job.
1" = 25.4mm. 1 unit is not 1" or 1 mm people basic
math
Here's the process:
Dimstyles
Primary Units
Alternate units
Hit ok, your done.
I do this all the time converting drawings for people
overseas it takes 10 seconds or less if your have
your templates setup properly.
Andy
RE: Autocad 2007
What you are describing is simply showing alternate units in the dimensions. He wants to convert the exist drawing from inches to mm, not just show alternate mm in his dimensions. The only way to convert the drawing is to change the units of the drawing from architectural to decimal. Otherwise how would you draw something that is 70mm long? If you haven't changed the drawing units, and you draw a line with a length of 70, its going to be 70 inches. How are you going to draw it as 70mm? I guess you could calculate how many inches a 70mm line is, and draw it like that, but that's just dumb, and a lot of work.
If you go into the dimstyle, and set the primary units to decimal, all of the dimension will be wrong unless you change the drawings units and scale the drawing. If you notice on the alternate units tab there is a multiplier in there for the alternate units. It's not magically changing everything, it's multiplying the current unit by 25.4 in order to display it as a mm.
RE: Autocad 2007
To convert a drawing from inches to centimeters
From the Modify menu, choose Scale.
At the Select Objects prompt, enter all.
All objects in the drawing are selected for scaling.
Enter a base point of *0,0.
Scaling will be relative to the world coordinate system origin and the location of the drawing origin will remain at the WCS origin.
Enter a scale factor of 2.54 (there are 2.54 centimeters per inch).
All objects in the drawing are now 2.54 times larger, corresponding to the equivalent distance in centimeters.
RE: Autocad 2007