pjmac Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Hello, New to autocad need some help. I have a hard copy drawing in mm so i drew it in mm. Now i have to dimension it in inches. I have tried several things including opening a new drawing in imperial, changed the units, INSUNITS are set to 1. Not sure what to do. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Using AutoCAD or Inventor? Please clarify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjmac Posted May 17, 2011 Author Share Posted May 17, 2011 Sorry I am using AutoCAD 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designerstuart Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 don't know about 2012 but you could use alternative units in your dimension style setup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 I will second designerstuart's suggestion re: Alternate Units. There is a tab for it in your Dimension Style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjmac Posted May 17, 2011 Author Share Posted May 17, 2011 That will do that you for your advice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperCAD Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 0.03937 is the conversion factor for going from metric to imperial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designerstuart Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 (edited) 0.03937 is the conversion factor for going from metric to imperial. can you be a bit more specific? is that inches to mm? no. inches to m? no. feet to miles? no. then what is it? i found these tables here........ inches 2.54 centimetres inches 0.08333333 feet inches 0.0254 metres inches 0.00001578 miles inches 25.4 millimetres inches 1000 mils inches 0.027777778 yards feet (ft.) 30.48 centimetres feet 0.0003048 kilometres feet (English Imperial) 0.3048 metres feet (US survey) 0.3048006 metres feet (Cape) 0.3148581 metres feet (geodetic Cape) 0.314855575 metres feet 0.0001645 miles (naut.) feet 0.0001894 miles (stat.) feet 304.8 millimetres feet 12000 mils Edited May 18, 2011 by designerstuart table didn't work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 1" = 25.4mm; 1mm = 1/25.4 (0.0393700787) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperCAD Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 1" = 25.4mm; 1mm = 1/25.4 (0.0393700787) What he said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dipali Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 THE SOLUTION POSTED BY ME IN THIS THREAD MAY HELP http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showth...t=44875&page=3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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