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[CadDog]

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How are your companies handling this nice new addition 2006...

The UNITS command...

INSUNITS

Which value are you using?


Thanks for your inputs

[Avatart]

Being English, we are using millimeters for our INSUNITS. It is turning out to be a real pain, as all our legacy drawings are defaulting to Feet and Inches, a means of measurement we disposed of in 1969.

I have written a script file to run on old drawings that converts them to mm, be nice to have a default option for these legacy files.

[H-Angus]

Yep mostly in millimetres, although it seems that surveyors work in metres (eg 1 unit = 1m rather than 1mm), so our site plans tend to be in metres (so that coordinates can be taken correctly) and everything else is in millimetres.

[Avatart]

Yep mostly in millimetres, although it seems that surveyors work in metres (eg 1 unit = 1m rather than 1mm), so our site plans tend to be in metres (so that coordinates can be taken correctly) and everything else is in millimetres.We scale up Surveyors drawings on Xreffing in.

[.chad]

hahah! i just did a help search on 'insunits' and they have some non standard units in there. i think the next site plan i draw will be in parsecs :veryevil:


0 Unspecified (No units)
1 Inches
2 Feet
3 Miles
4 Millimeters
5 Centimeters
6 Meters
7 Kilometers
8Microinches
9 Mils
10 Yards
11 Angstroms
12 Nanometers
13 Microns
14 Decimeters
15 Dekameters
16 Hectometers
17 Gigameters
18 Astronomical Units
19 Light Years
20 Parsecs

[intergrupocr]

Meters here... and millimeters too.:?

[jaberwok]

Millimetres.

[CadDog]

I found that by going with Unitless it has become Painless...

[jaberwok]

I found that by going with Unitless it has become Painless...

Yes when using old files but, hey, we want to move forward with new files. ;-)

[mom of 3]

We use both feet & unitless. I can't tell you exactly why, but all I know is that sometimes, for inserting specific blocks, I'm told to use unitless, then I have to change it back to feet.........something about how the blocks were created. *shrug* Otherwise, we'd just use feet, I'd assume.

[CadDog]

Yes when using old files but, hey, we want to move forward with new files. ;-)


Then how would you create standard symbols...

Inches...? But I do civil and it does come in at the correct scale...
I also do metric drawings and they really don't come in at the correct scale...

But if you are talking about plans I come across some of the same problems there too...

I love new stuff but new stuff that is worth it...

[Buffeldrek]

sorry, we're thinking in millimeters too -

but just checking, anyone can up with a disadvantage for importing unitless?

[Avatart]

sorry, we're thinking in millimeters too -

but just checking, anyone can up with a disadvantage for importing unitless?If you have a Site Plan in metres and a Floor Plate in Millimeters and Xref one into the other as Unitless, they will not relatively scale to each other (the Site Plan will be 1000x too small).

You could always use the INSUNITSDEFSOURCE and INSUNITSDEFTARGET variables, I suppose, that would get around that.

[lmitsou]

Meters and millimeters here.

[CadDog]

Sorry for Hi Jacking my own thread here...

"Wow, I didn't know that so many AutoCAD users were in the UK. Cool"

Back the thread...

carl...
I will have a look at using those variables tomorrow...
I need to go on a sign walk today...
Great! and it going to be WHAT!
106!!!

Must remember to take a lot of water along today... ha ha

Post you all soon... i hope... :)

[Avatart]

"Wow, I didn't know that so many AutoCAD users were in the UK. Cool"
We are legion and we are mighty....