Millimeters to Inches 4

[Kensai]

I have a drawing that i have done in millimeters.

The instrument is approx 70mm in diameter.

I have to send this drawing to the USA and the drawing has to be in inches, also the instrument has to be in inches, that means scaling it down by 0.03937.

Thats the easy part.

Is there a global command for the whole sheet and dimension style to have these scale down also, the dimensions are in FEET and INCHES, I would like them in INCHES ONLY.

Thanks for the input!

 

[borgunit]

One way is to rescale everything, then add a Inch dimstyle through design center and then do a match properties for the dims.

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

 

[haggis]

Kensai,

As far as AutoCAD is concerned, your part or instrument measures 70 units. You dont want to scale your drawing and part down. Go to modify dimension style and set the dimension scale factor to 0.03937 and choose fractional, architectural or leave decimal as the unit format.

 

[borgunit]

Oops, left out a step, after inserting the dimstyle. Create a new dim with that dimstyle, and then do your match properties to that dim.

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

 

[IFRs]

I scale thusly to avoid round-off:
Scale all (/ 1.0 25.4)

If you scale everything from mm to in, then your dimensions will now be in inches. No adjustments are needed to the DimStyles.

 

[Kensai]

Thanks guys, very helpful