Block Unit Insertion ??

[Bailey]

Hi Guys,

I've got a prob with block insertion.
When inserting a block it would come in way to small, so looking in tools\ options\ user preferences panel i noticed the insertion scale was set to inches insted of milimeters.
I change this but it still come's in wrong.

I then noticed in the bottom right of the insert panel the Block units is saying 0.034 insted of 1.0

Dose anyone know y this is happening and how to change that Block units section????

[SLW210]

You need to scale the block up by 25.4.

[dbroada]

you have to set a couple of variable but I can't remember what they are just now. INSUNITS is one, the others are in the INS* area so use Express tools variable editor for them.

[pjb84]

What is INSUNITS set to?

[Norts]

you have to set a couple of variable but I can't remember what they are just now. INSUNITS is one, the others are in the INS* area so use Express tools variable editor for them.

InsUnitsDefTarget, and InsUnitsDefSource are the other 2 variables.

[dbroada]

InsUnitsDefTarget, and InsUnitsDefSource are the other 2 variables.That's them! :)

[Alan Cullen]

And set them all to zero ..... = unitless
otherwise set the to suit your various units.....you will have to look up help to get the number for various options.....

[ZenCad1960]

This is one area where I believe custom palettes are golden. If you have a ton of blocks, you can create a palette to house them all using various tabs to discriminate them out. You can then use the properties for each on to use the "alternate units" and set that to dim scale. If you have a 40 scale drawing, the block will come into the drawing at 40 scale, no need to scale or anything, if you have a 30 it comes in at that scale.

We have set our complete standards up on palettes, including layers, linetypes, text, dimensions and our entire block library up using palettes. The users are all happy because they are so much faster than the old way. Faster than even templates.

Just my 2 cents