Text from imperial to metric

Hello,

I have tons survey points of text drawn which is in imperial (ft). I need to change

it to metric (m). Is there a lisp to change the text by "fence" the text

and convert immediately to metric (m) in the screen.

Thanks:)

Simple drawing might help a lot ( showing current and after )

Hello Tharwat.....

Not quite understand your answer? Would

be appreciate if a LISP can do the job in saving time

Thanks

It sounds to me like what you may actually want to do is change the -dwgunits of your drawing

from whatever Imperial unit they are currently to your preferred metric unit of measure.

I could be wrong, it would be helpful to see a sample .dwg file, as Tharwat suggested.

Hello Tharwat.....

Not quite understand your answer? Would

Just upload a sample drawing as you have did in the other posts .

perhaps this

(defun _I2M  (str m d)
     (if (distof str)
           (rtos (* (distof str)
                    (* 0.0254 (if m 1000 1))
                       )
                     2
                 (if m 0 d))
           )
     )

T for Milimeters

(_i2m "6'-11\"" t 2)

"2108"

nil for meters

2 Decimals places

(_i2m "6'-11\"" nil 2)

"2.11"

(_i2m "6'-11\"" nil 4)

"2.1082"

HTH

Hello all,

I have received this drawings from surveyor

which the text show the survey points in imperial (ie in feet) units.

I extract part of the drawing; as mentioned earlier; I wish

to have a lisp that "fence" the text and replace the text in

metric (ie in meter) units

Thanks

imperial.dwg

I checked the drawing units of your drawing and they are meters, so that looks appropriate.

It look like Lee Mac's http://www.lee-mac.com/textcalculator.html

lisp may be able to do this. I've never noticed this one before

amidst all of Lee's other shareware gems on his site, but I figured I would

be remiss if I didn't take a look.

Thanks Lee!

This may work ....

(defun c:f2m (/ ss)
 (if (setq ss (ssget "_:L" '((0 . "*TEXT"))))
   ((lambda (i / sn st e)
      (while (setq sn (ssname ss (setq i (1+ i))))
        (if (numberp (setq st (read (cdr (assoc 1 (setq e (entget sn)))))))
          (entmod (subst (cons 1 (rtos (* 0.3048 st) 2 2)) (assoc 1 e) e))
        )
      )
    )
     -1
   )
   (princ)
 )
 (princ)
)

Thanks Tharwat.......it works.

Wonderful

Thanks Tharwat.......it works.

Wonderful

You're welcome any time .

Just be careful of using "magic" numbers. Probably not much of an issue here, but I tend to use the cvunit function just since it's easier to understand the code's purpose and thus modify later if the units are different: http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=41407.0