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    Default Acceptable abbreviations eg When using cvunit

    Does anyone know if there is a list of acceptable abbreviations that you can use in AutoCAD? Example: cvunit(43560,square feet,acres) - - AutoCAD will not let me abbreviate square feet to sqft for example. Any suggestions?

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    Default Re: Acceptable abbreviations eg When using cvunit

    Check out the ACAD.UNT file.
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    Default Re: Acceptable abbreviations eg When using cvunit

    Quote Originally Posted by rkmcswain
    Check out the ACAD.UNT file.
    The acad.unt file gives you a list of units that you can convert. It does not tell you such things like you can substitute 'sqft' for 'square feet' or 'in' for 'inch', etc. Oh well, it's not that big of a hassle to type out square feet or inch instead of using an abbreviation.

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    Default Re: Acceptable abbreviations eg When using cvunit

    I believe you can modify that file to read what you want it to read. If you want 'sqft' instead of 'square feet', this would be the file to make those changes. You may want to copy the desired lines and changing the copied lines, therefore keeping the previous units available as well.
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    Default Re: Acceptable abbreviations eg When using cvunit

    Quote Originally Posted by mert523
    The acad.unt file gives you a list of units that you can convert. It does not tell you such things like you can substitute 'sqft' for 'square feet' or 'in' for 'inch', etc. Oh well, it's not that big of a hassle to type out square feet or inch instead of using an abbreviation.

    Mert Garrison
    I guess I should have elaborated.

    When I said [Check out the ACAD.UNT file], I meant see if you can add your own abbreviations, so that I didn't have to do this.

    As it turns out, you CAN add your own, or modify the ones that are there.
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