unit control

I have a machine that the units keep switching after the user changes them. is there a system var that will keep them set??

or is this a Land Desktop issue?

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Jonathan J. Baker
Carroll & Lange, Inc.
Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors
Lakewood, Colorado
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Its a LDD & AEC issue..do a search I know that this has been discussed in length on here before.

Tim W.

I have a machine that the units keep switching after the user changes them. is there a system var that will keep them set??

or is this a Land Desktop issue?

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Jonathan J. Baker
Carroll & Lange, Inc.
Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors
Lakewood, Colorado
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Some Units settings are kept in the .dwg. So, when the operator opens a .dwg, you cannot predict what it will get
set to. If a concern, add a line in the acaddoc.lsp file to force the units to be whatever. (caution). The units may be set for a good reason.. ?

Bob

 

Hi Jon,

Anyone using Land Desktop should completely forget the AutoCAD Units
command.

Land Desktop keeps overwriting any settings made with the Units command with
the ones from the Drawing Setup.

Hence if you use the Units command you will get inconsistent behaviour
depending on the order of commands used.

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Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au

I have a machine that the units keep switching after the user changes them.
is there a system var that will keep them set??

or is this a Land Desktop issue?

--

Jonathan J. Baker
Carroll & Lange, Inc.
Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors
Lakewood, Colorado
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Had this problem the other day on a user's workstation. In LDD under Projects/Drawing Setup.../Scale tab he had the horizontal set to Custom....I had him reset his lunits to 2 and go into Drawing Setup to change the custom scale to an appropriate number. That solved his problem. It may or may not solve yours.

By the way, how's the weather over there? (I'm in Denver)
I have a machine that the units keep switching after the user changes them. is there a system var that will keep them set??

or is this a Land Desktop issue?

--

Jonathan J. Baker
Carroll & Lange, Inc.
Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors
Lakewood, Colorado
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As a poormans workaround I have a script assigned to the ` key (the one right beside the number 1 and exclamation ! mark) that sets my units to the way I want them for this very annoying behavior. Note the semicolons are only for this example as place holders for a carriage return which needs to be a blank line

********************************************

-UNITS

2

4

5

4

;

;

GRAPHSCR

;

********************************************

Richard

I have a machine that the units keep switching after the user changes them. is there a system var that will keep them set??

or is this a Land Desktop issue?

--

Jonathan J. Baker
Carroll & Lange, Inc.
Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors
Lakewood, Colorado
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