Missing "inches" "mm" in Plot menu 2005

[jfranco]

Hi
I have Autodesk Building System 2005.
They did a major overhaul in the plotting menu.
They removed one practical use for "inches or mm" found from previous releases
Now I have to add new page formats for all my printers; long and tedious.
I know the format for 24"x36" but don't ask me what the values are in metric.

When I had to print in metric I chose "mm" with paper size 24"x36",
in imperial I chose "inches" with paper size 24"x36".
I only had one set of paper size

Now I have to choose paper size 610x914 if the plan is in metric
and 24"x36" if it's in imperial.

Is there a patch that will add back "mm" and "inches" to the plot menu?

Thank You

Joe Franco
Groupe Stavibel

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Doesn't look good, check out the following Technical Document on the Autodesk web site under the Knowledge Base section -

ID: TS84461 - Switch scaling from inch units to mm units in Plot or Page Setup dialog box

Maybe a possible Wish List item....

Have a good one, Mike

[Glenn Pope]

Check out this thread Plotting with AutoCAD 2005
Links to patches that will bring this function back.

[Spectrefish]

Here is autodesk's fix for the inches/mm issue:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...linkID=2475161

[luih2003]

Thanks for the information, but now that I have the patch where I put those files? I put them in the Architectural Desktop 2005 folder and restarted the program, but nothing happened.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

My bad, "Units Toggle for the Plot and Page Setup Dialog Boxes" update is only available for AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005.

Have a good one, Mike