![]() ![]() ![]() Uncheck Specify On-screen radio button from insertion point, Scale and Rotation panels, also make sure explode radio button is checked in the lower left corner of the Insert window. Now type I on the command line and press enter, browse your imperial unit drawing Sample.DWG from insert window. Select millimeters from Insertion Scale drop-down menu, you can select any other unit as well as per your own need but for this article, I will stick with millimeters. Now type UN on the command line and press enter Units window will appear. Open a new session of AutoCAD and click on New Drawing from the application menu, a template selection window will appear select acadiso.dwt template from this window and click open. This method of converting unit is destructive in nature and you will lose a lot of data from your drawing, mostly named objects like layers, blocks, and linetypes. You can verify the result by measuring the distance between any two points in the drawing, it will now be reported in millimeter instead of inches. ![]() Your drawing is now converted to metric with millimeter as drawing unit. Scale objects in current drawing to reflect change in units? Scale objects from other drawings upon insert? ĭepending on your selection you may or may not see following prompts on the command line. Select yes from both of these prompts. Similarly, from other prompts use options as shown below. In this case, the millimeter option is in third place and hence typing 3 and pressing enter will select millimeter as drawing unit. Here you need to specify unit which you want to use in the current drawing, type the order number of unit and that unit will be applied. Now, look at the command line prompt which looks like the image shown below. Open Sample.DWG drawing (imperial) in AutoCAD and then type -DWGUNITS on the command line (don’t forget to add the dash before command) and press enter. This is an easy method of converting the unit of drawing but it will work only for AutoCAD 2009 and later versions. Let’s assume that you have a drawing which is in imperial units (inches) and you want to convert it into metric units (mm), let’s name that drawing Sample.DWG.
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