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  1. AMChroma

    DraftSight unable to open a .dwg

    You were right, I tired saving as a Autocad 2010 .dwg, of all things, and draftsight was able to handle that. Anything after 2010 seems to be incompatible with draftsight. Thanks!
  2. AMChroma

    DraftSight unable to open a .dwg

    I used Autodesk Inventor LT Task Scheduler to convert a .idw to a .dwg, and then attempted to open the .dwg using DraftSight, assuming it would work as it usually does. However, DraftSight gave me an error: "This version of drawing file is not supported" "Unable to open file". Does anyone have...
  3. AMChroma

    Displaying Alternative Units on Dimensions, e.g English [Metric]

    Okay, so you have to edit the dimension style, hit apply, and then hit "save to active style", this actually causes it to affect all dimensions on the open dwg. Thank you very much! PS: This is a long shot, but do you know if there's a way to detect dimensions that have been put in as...
  4. AMChroma

    Displaying Alternative Units on Dimensions, e.g English [Metric]

    Basically what I'm trying to do is take a dwg that has all english dimensions, and change all of those dimensions at once so that they all have the style of English [Metric]. Right now, I can do that individually, by modifying the dimensions properties, and selecting "Yes" for alterntate unit...

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