If your DWG Units setting is off – which happens somewhat rarely – you can fix it by following these steps. If not, objects such as your blocks will scale incorrectly when placed.Ĭertain ACAD 2007 proxies can change these settings – one of many reasons it's incredibly important to follow our steps to clean your drawings and Xrefs. In the Dimension Style Manager, click New. This setting should definitely match your drawing units setting. How do you change inches to mm in AutoCAD Solution: On the Dimension menu, click Style. The DWG Units (-DWGUNITS) setting determines how objects are inserted and scaled into your drawing.
How to verify your units DWG Units (-DWGUNITS) You can easily verify that your units are set correctly in an existing drawing by drawing and measuring a polyline.
What does this mean for you as the designer? You need to be extremely diligent in confirming the units. So the term "unitless" is misleading it's very much hard set to a unit type. Anyway, somehow this mysteriously worked. It was very useful, because it made sense to draft in different unit types. For a long time I have been xref'ing different drawings into one another that were created in different units (Eng, decimal, Arch). To change the precision of primary units, specify the number of decimals to round off to, in the box adjacent to Power Dimensioning tab Dim Text panel Primary Precision Find. I have a huge problem that is stressing me out right now. So no matter what you change the units of the drawing to be, the line will still extend from 0,0 to 10,10. To Change the Precision of Dimensions (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset) In the drawing area, select the dimensions you want to edit. Note there is no Unit specified – just the numeric coordinates. The definition of a line in AutoCAD is always something like "0,0 – 10,10." In this case, the line is extending from the coordinates 0,0 to the coordinates 10,10. AutoCAD is considered "unitless" by design.