From Imperial to metric

Hi guys,

I have just started to use Autocad for MAC and I have realized all my drawings are in imperial when I need metric. How do I change that? Do I need to scale the drawing or is there another way to do it? In case I can ony scale the drawing what measurement do I need to use?

Thanks!

LD

You'll have to scale them. 25.4mm = 1". You can do the math right?

The strange thing is that the measures are ok in the model space so if I change them I screw up the drawing. I get problems when I try to scale the drawing or when I use mesures in paper space: I am on an A1 and when I offset a line of 10 units the lines get 1/3 of the whole lenght of the paper sheet (841mm) which in paper space measures around 33.08 units (which I think are inches doing a rough calculation). It's a very strange behaviour: it seems as the file is using the 2 measurement for different things. I have set the units to metric. Another strange behaviour is that I don't get the metric drawing scales but only the imperial no matter how I try to change them. I's weird!

Why don't you start over and use a metric template.

Why don't you start over and use a metric template.

hhrmmm....it's a collage of many other dwg, it covers a whole city on which I need to work on (it's an urban project). So far I have seen that files this big are better handled by Archicad, and strangely enough when I import it I don't seem to have all this measurement problems. I feel it's hight time to learning it now