How to draw in centimetres?
I am in the UK and I want to draw, say, a square that is 5cm on each side. How do I set AutoCAD so that 1 unit = 1cm?When I draw a test square and each line is 5 units long and have the annotation scale set to 1:1 it prints out on paper at 5mm square. Do I have to remember to times every measurement by 10? That seems very awkward. Sometimes the hammer, sometimes the nail.Now, all I have to do is work on getting my answers correct. That did it, thanks guys! :-)
(But you'd think such an important command would have am easy to use drop-down menu somewhere) Its really only relevant if you keep changing your units. Once it is set in your template all future drawings will use the correct settings. Like Dbroada says, you ain't gonna want to do this all the time.Now that you know how to set the units to cm, you can save a Centemeter Units.dwt (template drawing) and use it for a new drawing.It'll be ready to go.
-dwgunits is a set and forget sort of admin tool, made difficult to find on purpose.That's why they make default templates, so noobs don't have to sweat it. :lol:and then somebody wants a non default unit. fortunately "light years" is one of the defaults....
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