BIGMIKE09281946 Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 DesignCenter is supposed to adjust from metric to Imperial on the fly when one moves blacks to and fro, correct? According to the Mastering AutoCAD 2k6 textbook, it is. Its not happening for me. Am I missing something? Some command? Some setting? Smores? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgarjr Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I suggest you dont try to make things more complicated on yourself than they are already are. Is there a conversion factor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I don't use design centre but this works during insertion if set units in all your drawings, both blocks to be inserted and base drawings. I find it more frustrating than useful as the number of times you NEED this feature is far fewer than the number of times AutoCAD gets it wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGMIKE09281946 Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 Thanks to all. It was an assignment in the textbook, and I found that the files I was to use were drawn in the wrong units. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skipsophrenic Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Thanks to all. It was an assignment in the textbook, and I found that the files I was to use were drawn in the wrong units. Well that's usefull for the book to tell you this. What book was this with the wrong units? AutoCAD for Confusion of the population?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGMIKE09281946 Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share Posted February 1, 2009 The book is called "Mastering AutoCAD 2006 and AutoCAD LT 2006", by George Omura. Also, the 1st question in my Penn Foster Exam is as follows: 1. When we are inserting a block, the DesignCenter uses two methods to determine the insertion size of the block. These methods are? A: Autoscaling and using the Insert dialog box. B: Autosizing and using the Open dialog box. C: Automatic and using the Delete dialog box. D: Autoranging and using the Size dialog box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skipsophrenic Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 If you know what unit's the files were drawn at, couldn't you scale them by reference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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