muaddib Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I have to ad dimensions to an architectural drawing in model space The file is drawn in decimal units (1unit=1meter) Now I have been asked to ad dimensions in feet and inches to the drawing in order to make it usable to UK I know that the solution is to use alternate units with Architectural units format, but how mach is the multiplier that I have to use? I have no experience in British metric system. So I left the multiplier 25.4 as AutoCAD prompt. Can anyone please inform me if is correct? 2.81 meters equals to 5'-11 1/4” ? Thank you in advance Ps. I’m using AutoCAD 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 2.81 x 25.4 = 71.374" 71.374" / 12 = 5.94783' .94783 x 12 = 11.37396" It looks like the dimension should be 5'-11 3/8" Check your dimstyle precision setting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muaddib Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 :DThank you for your help I appreciate that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ber Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 2.81 m x 39,37 " per m = 110.6299 " 110.6299 / 12 = 9.2192 ft. .2192 x 12 = 2.63 9 ft. 2 5/8 " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpseifert Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 As per the ber 1 meter=3.28084 feet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Oops, you're right. That's what I get for answering questions first thing in the morning. Disregard my previous post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Follow this link: http://joshmadison.com/software/convert/ and download the Convert program. It will convert any unit of measure to any other unit of measure. It's very handy. Should have used it this morning. Sheesh! Sorry about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpseifert Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 The Quickcalc command in Acad 2006+ will convert also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 or you could use the inbuilt AutoCAD calculator with the conversion function built in (I think ) doh! had I not been watching the Simpsons I would have beaten lpseifert to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muaddib Posted February 23, 2007 Author Share Posted February 23, 2007 So I just enter the multiplier value equal to 39,37 and automatically the annotations have both decimal and architectural system. Thanks everybody Have a nice Weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_W Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Now I have been asked to ad dimensions in feet and inches to the drawing in order to make it usable to UK The UK uses Metric, and has done for the past 25 years that I know of. As far as I'm aware it is only the US that still uses the old imperial system... You may get a few die-hard old boys still using imperial and drawing boards, but they will be very few and far between.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanMiguel Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 So I just enter the multiplier value equal to 39,37 and automatically the annotations have both decimal and architectural system. Thanks everybody Have a nice Weekend thanks for this tip...very usefull ive been banging my head for a while on what would be the correct multiplier to use....ive tried 3.28 but its still giving me wrong dim.....how the heck did you get 39.37 as a multiplier??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ber Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 there are 39.37 inches in a meter. 1000 mm divided by 25,4 mm/in = 39.37 in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanMiguel Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 now it makes more sense.....thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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