e_anders3 Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Hi all! I'm working on drawing a railroad spur in AutoCAD 2011. I had an archaeologist get the measurements for me and unfortunately, she measured in units of 10 (i.e. 1 foot = 10 units so each "unit" = 1 1/4" I'm wondering if there's a way in CAD to automatically convert these units. If I could enter 1 and have it come out automatically as 1 1/4" so that I don't have to convert every single measurement. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! Emily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Any chance she actually used decimal feet and inches? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e_anders3 Posted May 2, 2016 Author Share Posted May 2, 2016 Unfortunately no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e_anders3 Posted May 2, 2016 Author Share Posted May 2, 2016 She drew everything "to scale" on 10x10 grid paper. So for example, one railroad tie was drawn as being 4 units wide, which would technically equal 5 inches (since each unit = 1 1/5"). Does that make sense? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobDraw Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 People don't usually make up their own unit system. I'd be willing to bet that it is decimal feet and 1 unit actually equals 1.2 inches. Especially since 10 units equals 1 foot, as stated in your OP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e_anders3 Posted May 2, 2016 Author Share Posted May 2, 2016 I suppose that could be the case, I'll have a chat with her later and see if this is what she did. If this is the case, do I just convert each measurement individually, or is there a way for CAD to do that for me? For example, if a tie is .4 units, would I need to convert that to 4.75" and so on? Or is there an easier way to do this? Thanks for all the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobDraw Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Set your units to decimal feet and just input the values as they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 unless I've missed the point I would draw everything full size in "units" as measured and then scale the finished drawing by 1.25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Scale the Archeologist's drawing to full size by Scale>Reference of a known distance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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