Imperial Measurement to Metric

Hi There,
I am using R14 and some time ago I did a drawing in
Imperial sizes. I wanted to modify the drawing only I wanted to
change the whole drawing to metric. I have tried help which was no
help, so can any body please put me on the right track if that is
possible. Any help will be appreciated.

Take Care Fred

 

It depends on "how metric" you really want it to be. If you just want all
the dimensions to read metric units, tinkering with the dimension style and
updating all the dimensions could be enough. Whoever works on such a drawing
would have to keep in mind the difference between the units entered and
those annotated. (I do this often because wood products here are imperial
and the laws are all metric.)

If you want a truely metric drawing, then you'll have to scale the all the
entities in the drawing by an appropriate factor, then revise all your
dimension style and update all dimensions, and finally rescale all vieports.

To go from inches to millimeters as "units" scale by 25.4
To go from inches to meters use 0.0254

MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Kingshott" <>
Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 2:44 AM
Subject: Imperial Measurement to Metric