kililio Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Hi, Decided to tackle this wonderful software Autocad I want to do Architectural and Interior Design work I've set the unit length type to: architectural Insertion scale to: inches But why oh why when I draw a line and I set it to 1 unit value its looking so tiny on my screen and I have to zoom way in to see something? Uploaded with ImageShack.us What's wrong? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSasu Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 There is absolutely nothing wrong - is just the fact that the zoom level in your template drawing is so high than a 1 units item appear tiny. If you are using one of the templates shipped with AutoCAD, I would guess that you choused acadiso.dwt - please do a test with the acad.dwt instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kililio Posted January 17, 2013 Author Share Posted January 17, 2013 There is absolutely nothing wrong - is just the fact that the zoom level in your template drawing is so high than a 1 units item appear tiny.If you are using one of the templates shipped with AutoCAD, I would guess that you choused acadiso.dwt - please do a test with the acad.dwt instead. Thanks a lot MSasu, I did as you said and indeed it's way better ! Now as I checked Acad.dwt = imperial acadasio.dwt = metric 2 different templates What's the best for me? I'm working with meters (french system) I want to enter my measurement in Ortho using "meters & centimeters" creating geometry using "meters & centimeters" How can I do that ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFW Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 You're working in meters so take acadiso.dwt. But i would suggest you make your own .dwt For example: 1.Open a new drawing with acadiso.dwt 2. _units -> set to meters or keep mm depends on what you draw buildings or (in modelspace) 3. _dimsyle -> make one for meters and one for cm maybe mm 4. add layer,block, title block ... things you use very often 5. Think about layouttab. i use _units mm there because it's better to plot but than you have to make new scallists and delete all the others (_scalelistedit) f.e. (1:100 = 1:0.1 and 1:50 = 1:0.05) save as new dwt in Ortho using "meters & centimeters" i think thats not possible in one drwaing u have to choose m, cm, mm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSasu Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 As KLW noted, you cannot use multiple units for your input. Choose one and later may use dedicated dimension styles to dimension in different units and or formats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kililio Posted January 17, 2013 Author Share Posted January 17, 2013 You're working in meters so take acadiso.dwt. But i would suggest you make your own .dwt For example: 1.Open a new drawing with acadiso.dwt 2. _units -> set to meters or keep mm depends on what you draw buildings or (in modelspace) 3. _dimsyle -> make one for meters and one for cm maybe mm 4. add layer,block, title block ... things you use very often 5. Think about layouttab. i use _units mm there because it's better to plot but than you have to make new scallists and delete all the others (_scalelistedit) f.e. (1:100 = 1:0.1 and 1:50 = 1:0.05) save as new dwt i think thats not possible in one drwaing u have to choose m, cm, mm thanks ! 1. done 2. When I set to Architectural I get a warning that Architectural usually is set with "Inches" I click ok tho 3. ok it's dimstyle in command line right? I get 2 dimstyle I guess they the same after that... I'm lost, I guess I gotta click "new" and then I see two set already there "Iso-25" and Standard", do I Click "New" and name it Meter and then? 4. you talking about toolbars ? 5. Again i'm lost here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 2. When I set to Architectural I get a warning that Architectural usually is set with "Inches" I click ok tho I would suggest that you set your units to decimal. The term Architectural describes the format of the units and not the profession of the user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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