Drawing Unit
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 6:39 pm
Hello,
first of all please excuse me for the question but I'm really new with CAD applications.
I would like to know if the Drawing Unit (Drawing Preferences:General:Drawing Unit) is automatically set after I open a drawing.
I'm asking this since I have noticed some incongruences between the Drawing Unit and the length values I read in the Property Editor.
I try to explain better was I'm experiencing.
I open a .DWG file created with another CAD application ( I don't know )
I look at the Drawing Preferences:General:Drawing Unit = mm, Paper Unit = mm
I select a line and I get the length in the Property Editor : 5000 it is in mm. Correct.
I open another .DWG file created with another CAD application ( I don't know )
I look at the Drawing Preferences:General:Drawing Unit = mm, Paper Unit = mm
I select a line and I get the length in the Property Editor : 2.5 is in m. The measure is correct, the line is 2500 mm, but it is displayed in a different unit of measure.
Is there a way to know the unit of measure of the values I read in the Property Editor ?
Is there a way to extract this info from the document ?
Thank you.
sramp
first of all please excuse me for the question but I'm really new with CAD applications.
I would like to know if the Drawing Unit (Drawing Preferences:General:Drawing Unit) is automatically set after I open a drawing.
I'm asking this since I have noticed some incongruences between the Drawing Unit and the length values I read in the Property Editor.
I try to explain better was I'm experiencing.
I open a .DWG file created with another CAD application ( I don't know )
I look at the Drawing Preferences:General:Drawing Unit = mm, Paper Unit = mm
I select a line and I get the length in the Property Editor : 5000 it is in mm. Correct.
I open another .DWG file created with another CAD application ( I don't know )
I look at the Drawing Preferences:General:Drawing Unit = mm, Paper Unit = mm
I select a line and I get the length in the Property Editor : 2.5 is in m. The measure is correct, the line is 2500 mm, but it is displayed in a different unit of measure.
Is there a way to know the unit of measure of the values I read in the Property Editor ?
Is there a way to extract this info from the document ?
Thank you.
sramp