Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How do I draw a file in imperial, then convert it to metric in AutoCAD?

Or, you can do like I do[or used to when I had
to]. Preserve the original drawing scale and scale
the dimensions. Go to [top menu bar] Dimension,
Style. Pick Modify. Go to the primary units tab.
On this tab there is a 'Measurement Scale' [middle
lower left side] . If you have your drawing in
inches and want it in MM, just put in 25.4 this
will give you all your dim's in MM. If you've
drawn it in MM and want it in inches put in
0.039370079 {1 divided by 25.4} You'll get inches.
The cool thing is if you want to switch your
actual dim's back and forth just change it here in
the modify dim section [or creat a new 'STYLE' and
you just switch between styles -don't forget to
click 'set current' ] Select all the dim's you
want to convert to or from inchs/MM and click
'UPDATE DIM' this will change them over to the
new 'STYLE' which you've selected. At least this
was how it was in AutoCad 2000.


Ok.. Back to SolidWorks.. :-)

Jarrett Johnson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Wander" <awander@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:37 PM
Subject: RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How do I draw a
file in imperial, then convert it to metric in
AutoCAD?


> Steve:
>
> In AutoCAD, the drawing is in "units".
>
> When you dimension things, you do get to tell it
> what to call those
> units.
>
> But scaling the drawing by a factor of 25.4 will
> make something that was
> "1 unit long" bigger. That same thing will now
> be "25.4 units long".
>
> You can then tell your dimension style that it
> should use "mm" as the
> unit.
>
> There may be other ways to do this, but I think
> this is the simplest.
> It's the way I do it(usually, I'm converting
> the other way-from a
> drawing I have that is in "mm" and is 25.4 time
> too big when I insert it
> into my drawing)
>
> Andy Wander
> Verrex Corporation
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Steve Tompson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:35 PM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How do I draw a
> file in imperial, then
> convert it to metric in AutoCAD?
>
> I use an old version of Autosketch (very baby
> autocad) and I just change
> the
> units from imperial to mm (menu item: custom /
> drawing settings /
> units).
> To carry out the suggestion below will reduce
> the drawing by a factor of
>
> 25.4 but it will still be imperial.
>
> Steve Tompson
> ======================================
> Alan Marconett said ..... You should be able to
> use the "scale" function
>
> .......
>
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