meters vs. millimeters - Autodesk Community
Jan 17, 2008 · How many of you out there draw your building plans in meters and how many in millimeters? My understanding is that AutoCAD Architecture is set up for drawing in …
Changed drawing units to mm but still measuring in meters?
Mar 7, 2021 · Units in drawing are set to mm however autocad is still measuring distances in meters? When originally changing drawing set up from meters to millimeters no warning …
Issue changing units to metric - Autodesk Community
Apr 12, 2020 · Changing the units from Inches (with Architectural Length Type) to Millimeters will automatically change the Length Type to Decimal and you will no longer be offered …
vla-InsertBlock method applies unit scaling twice?
Oct 27, 2025 · While the main drawing is in meters (doesn't matter really) the block definitions can be defined in meters, millimeters, centimeters, ... the works. I'm using the vla-InsertBlock …
Converting a drawing done in mm to inches - Autodesk Community
Oct 14, 2019 · However, I want to make sure I was in fact dealing with .9 centimeters rather than .9 millimeters. That said, I'm trying to figure that out because the CNC machinist asked for it in …
Export LandXML error - Autodesk Community
Jul 27, 2009 · If it's inches or millimeters, you need to change it to feet or meters, which might also require scaling items in your drawing. THEN create the surface and do the LandXML export.
Solved: Scale and Dimensions - Autodesk Community
Jul 19, 2017 · You say the units of the file are decimal. The length per the properties palette is 15.0000 That can be anything you want it to be, meters, millimeters, centimeters, or inches or …
Why are millimeters the smallest drawing unit available?
Jun 12, 2015 · 4. Centimeters 5. Decimeters 6. Meters Unit for length <3>: *Cancel* Which tells me that my current units are selection 3, which is millimeters. And as was mentioned before, …
Solved: Dimensions are bigger in scale once exploded and dashed …
Apr 19, 2025 · However the original file was created in millimeters. Hence I had to external reference and bind it to convert to meters. I want the drawing to be exploded to select …
Solved: How to draw in millimeters? - Autodesk Community
Jan 15, 2019 · Cant figure out how to make my lines draw in millimeters. I am using Autocad Electrical 2018. I have already tried various options in the drawing utilities and using the …