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(@ralph-perez)
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Is there a way to change a current drawing in Engineering Units to Architectural?

 
Posted : August 4, 2014 3:16 am
(@leegreen)
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Type UNITS at command prompt
Click Type pull down menu
Select Architectural

 
Posted : August 4, 2014 3:29 am
(@j-t-strickland)
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The only way I know to make it work with existing data is to scale everything up by a factor of 12, but that will affect coord values, etc. I don't know of an easy way.

 
Posted : August 4, 2014 3:31 am
(@ralph-perez)
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> The only way I know to make it work with existing data is to scale everything up by a factor of 12, but that will affect coord values, etc. I don't know of an easy way.

That's what thinking JT, I want the text annotations to reflect also.

Thanks

 
Posted : August 4, 2014 5:45 am
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Usually have to explode everything multiple times so that the dynamic dims become text and lines before you scale.

 
Posted : August 4, 2014 5:48 am
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> Usually have to explode everything multiple times...

So basically you're saying that to convert a drawing from units an architect would use to units a surveyor would use requires you to perform a lobotomy on the drawing...makes sense. 😉

 
Posted : August 4, 2014 6:42 am
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I believe you can x-ref it in with a scale, then you leave the original in it's native units for simplicity in case it needs modifying.

 
Posted : August 4, 2014 6:57 am