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Converting an existing drawing in mm to m


Mhussein

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Hi All, 

 

When I converted a drawing from mm to m using the scale command, the dimensions do not convert. See the image below. How can I also convert the dimensions to m ?

 

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You should re-format the dimension style.

 

Go into the Fit page - Scale for dimension features, and divide the existing figure by 1000 to get all the arrows and text to reasonable size.

 

To turn it into metres, go to the Primary Units page, and enter a Scale factor of 0.001

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Welcome to CADTutor Mhussein.   :)

 

It looks like eldon has already got you sorted out.   :thumbsup:

For future reference you might want to familiarize yourself with the     -dwgunits      command, the hyphen is part of the command, and important.

I would suggest that you increase the commandline history display to about 8 or 10 rows, practice on a copy of your drawing to be safe,

go slowly and read the commandline prompts carefully.

 

 

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