Units reverting to Architectural / Imperial

[bill.73461]

Can anyone help with my current dilemma?

Using ADT 3.3, every time I open a drawing, the units revert to Architectural (feet and inches) either immediately or after a short period of time. I have checked all the settings, changing all `units` to decimal. This has happened with most if not all drawings I have opened (ie not happening with 1 specific drawing).

Please help as this problem is costing a lot of drafting time and effort, not to mention trying my patience!!

Cheers

Bill Johnston

[Mike.Perry]

Hi Bill

Please note I've *moved* this Topic (Thread) from the AutoCAD General Forum to this one as I believe it would be better served here.

Thanks, Mike

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[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Check out the following Technical Document on the Autodesk web site under the Knowledge Base section -

ID: TS66008 - Drawing settings are overridden

Have a good one, Mike

[richard.binning]

A good final check is to verify the settings for two of the variables that control metric vs imperial drawings. Verify that:

MEASUREMENT
MEASUREINIT

Are both set correctly and you should see this problem go away. I have added a little notification update to my MODEMACRO function in the window so that it displays "Imperial" or "Metric" for the user automatically as shown below.

 
;; Set Window Information
(SETVAR "modemacro" (STRCAT "LAYER=$(GETVAR,CLAYER)  UNITS: $(IF, $(=, $(getvar,MEASUREMENT),0),IMPERIAL,METRIC)  SCALE=$(GETVAR,DIMSCALE)"))

Place the above code in your acaddoc.lsp for automatic loading.