drawing units set-up as default civil 3d

I have recently upgraded to civil 3d 2009.

Is there anyway I can set the drawing units default to metres?

I have tried everthing the usual way by setting;

units

insunits

insunitsdefsource and target.

On the prospector tab I have changed the units and zone, and ambient settings, all to metric. I saved this as a template. but for some reason it still doesn't default to metric.

I always have to keep re-setting these.

i have a third party (metric) survey program that produces dxf's but when it is opened up in acad it defaults as imperial.

It seems to me there must be some deep rooted setting I need to change.

Anyone any ideas?

cheers in advance

Iain

Have you tried using one of the OOTB metric templates as your base for your template?

Have you tried using one of the OOTB metric templates as your base for your template?

Damn, i should have just saved the metric over the acad.dwt... I should have known.

Or just change your default template to the metric one in Options > Files tab.

AECDWGSETUP is what your looking for caught us out for a while its like a hidden over ride by some one at Autodesk.

Set it to metric also turn off inserting scaled objects makes them feet when metric

AECDWGSETUP is what your looking for caught us out for a while its like a hidden over ride by some one at Autodesk.

 

Set it to metric also turn off inserting scaled objects makes them feet when metric

cheers bigAl