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  1. geekman25

    Drawing which contains inch and metric dimensions

    First of all, thanks to all who have posted and reinforced my feelings on this subject. I created our drawing templates (we are a startup company) a couple of years ago, based on 20 years of designing and drawing mechanical parts and assemblies. The templates were based on the ASME Y14.5...
  2. geekman25

    Drawing which contains inch and metric dimensions

    This question pertains to drawings that have both inch and metric dimensions. This is a somewhat common practice in some industries, such as medical devices, even though not a good one. If the title block has a statement of "UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED, DIMENSIONS ARE IN INCHES", is it...
  3. geekman25

    SWX sheet format into Draftsight

    Thanks a lot CBL! That will suffice for now. I will have to learn some more about this and then try to create a DS template which uses the attributes of blocks so the "custom properties" of the dwg are quickly editable. Geekman25
  4. geekman25

    SWX sheet format into Draftsight

    I have used DwgEditor (DE) a few times when someone wanted a dwg file modified. I just found out that it is not bundled with SWX 2011. DraftSight (DS) seems so easy to use because it is similar to both DE and SWX. I would like to have the title block, rev. block etc., on a drawing template Is...

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