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Old 01-29-2011 | 10:08 AM
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Howdy again,

I am working on a drawing in Autocad 2011 that someone started in metric (mm), I want to convert the entire drawing to Inches and I cant seam to do it.

I have went into units and changed them to inches but when I deminsion or measure it is still in mm.

It would save me alot of time if I could get the drawing into inches because that is what I am familar with.

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Old 01-29-2011 | 12:01 PM
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The way I would do it is to scale the drawn parts by x 25.4.
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Old 01-29-2011 | 02:18 PM
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If the drawing is metric you need to scale it by .03937 to convert it to inches.

Example:

100mm x .03937 = 3.937 inches

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Old 01-29-2011 | 03:15 PM
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Set up a new dimension style for inches. Then the drawing will be to scale in inches.

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Old 01-29-2011 | 03:23 PM
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Thanks guys, I got it figured out

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