AutoCAD How to Change or Convert Units!

AutoCAD How to Change or Convert Units! - 2 Minute Tuesday

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Brandon here back with another new 2 minute tuesday!
In todays video take a look at one of the most googled autocad questions: How to Change Units in AutoCAD! It's always surprising to me how often this question along with how to convert units in Autocad comes up. It seems like it should be easy and straight forward, but it isn't. It's actually kind of hard to find the command and figure out exactly which options you want to be choosing in the process.
This method can also be used to convert your drawings (dwg) units from one to the other, effectively scaling all of your objects.
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@Cadintentions 3 жыл бұрын

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@juangalindorestrepo5410 5 ай бұрын

You guys who teach this type of things online are heroes. Thanks a lot.

@blackmajor43 Жыл бұрын

I followed tons of tutorials, but none of them could help me. This vid is my lifesaver. I can't figure out why adjusting UNITS didn't work, it needs to be changed in 'Dwgunits'. Thanks a lot.

@Cadintentions Жыл бұрын

So glad it helped and sorry you had to watch soo many tutorials to find the answer! It can definitely be a tough one to find info on. Thank you for watching and the comment! Cheers

@martymu Жыл бұрын

Amazing, thank you so much for making this very clear.

@dsmsdy3399 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial bruv, after couple of hours searching to convert my drawing from mm to metres I came across your tutorial and you save my work with it.Thank you! Give 100x

@Cadintentions 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad it helped and thanks for watching and commenting! Cheers!

@Sanda197513 5 ай бұрын

Was really helpful.

@ting-ting007 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Brandon, great video! I followed step by step with yours and after -dwgunits conversion I got the E showing up and when I type distance it says 0.00E+00 (read only) - not sure where I went wrong, any ideas? Appreciate any help! Thanks a lot in advance.

@sandorguillen7557 3 жыл бұрын

Brandon, good afternoon; if I have blocks edited in Metric system it is possible to use them in Imperial System?, and which factor to apply? If any, at download them? I mean Block units are in Inches (Imperial Units) to be used on Metric System. I will appreciate your professional assistance, Sandor

@jdheelfan 3 жыл бұрын

Wow I had no idea I just had to type in units.

@ACSAcchiever 5 ай бұрын

can I ask you something, how do find the dimensions of a present drawing?

@GerryJ08 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Brandon. Just so that I'm clear on this. The drawing of the floor plan was in feet and inches. By using the dwgunits command and selecting meters etc. etc. the entire drawing will now display it's dimensions in meters. Also, if I were to import another drawing that was drawn in feet and inches, it too would be automatically scaled to meters? Can or should these settings (dwgunits) be incorporated into your typical sheet setup protocol?Gerry / Coquitlam

@Cadintentions 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Gerry, Sorry for the slow reply, just catching up now. Yes, that's correct, a line for instance that is measured using the distance command to be 3m long if dwgunits is set to meters, would then measure using the distance command around 9.84 ft if the dwgunits were switched to feet. Effectively scaling your objects so the are the correct size in the specified units of the drawing. This won't however change you styles for text, dims, annotation etc.. since that is controlled by the drawing template, ie. imperial or metric. If you've created your typical sheet/templates for imperial or metric versions, it is defintely a good idea to check that the dwg units are set to match accordingly. In general these units don't come into use a lot when using plain AutoCAD, but do have consequences if set incorrectly. Especially if the drawings are sent out and someone imports them into say civil 3d, revit, or any software where units and real world coordinates matter quite a bit. Things can come in oversized, too small, or in the wrong location completely. Hope that helps and thanks again for watching and for the comment!!

@gregoryluke1649 3 жыл бұрын

@@Cadintentions Hi Brandon, Thanks for the video. Further to this point, I work in a Civil design team and find errors in drawings sent to us regularly. If you received a drawing or opened someone else's model and saw the model was obviously drawn in meters but units were mistakenly set to millimeters how would you ensure the geographic location of the model (typically a site layout) was now in its correct location after using the -DWGUNITS command and scaling the model objects?