Area - millimeters to meters????

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by Monty, Jul 7, 2003.

  1. Monty

    Monty Guest

    Ok I know it's just simple maths and I shouldn't be lazy but......... is it
    possible for Autocad to calulate area in meters if the drawing unit is set
    to millimeters?
     
    Monty, Jul 7, 2003
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  2. Monty

    Monty Guest

    I know you only have to shift the decimal point (I didn't mean to sound so
    darm oops dumb) I just want to know if Autocad can do it.
     
    Monty, Jul 7, 2003
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  3. Monty

    Smackypete Guest

    AutoCAD reports the area in the units you are using, it doesn't know or care
    what those units are. If you say the units are millimeters, then that's the
    area you get, it you say the units are miles, then that's the area you get,
    etc., etc. You just need to write a small macro to convert the square
    millimeters that AutoCAD reports into square meters.
     
    Smackypete, Jul 7, 2003
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  4. Monty

    Ian A. White Guest

    If the drawing has been done with millimetres as the drawing unit then
    the answer will be in square millimetres. To get the answer in metres,
    you would have to scale the drawing down by 1000 so that it was drawn in
    metres. AutoCAD only understands drawing units. The only exception is
    that if you enter a distance with an apostrophe, then AutoCAD guesses it
    is feet and multiplies the number by 12.
     
    Ian A. White, Jul 8, 2003
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  5. Monty

    Ugly Prince Guest

    I have the same problem. I've always worked in metres and now I've been detached to a place where they work in
    milimetres, but for measurements they need metres and square metres. Sometimes even in acres.

    I think they only way to deal with is to write a lisp routine that divides the result by 1000 or 1000 000.
     
    Ugly Prince, Jul 31, 2003
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