
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
FBX Units and Scaling - Autodesk Community
Sep 22, 2020 · To avoid this "arbitrary" interpretation, we introduced the UnitScaleFactor to represent the multiplier needed to convert the "implied" centimeter to the units we want the file …
Programatically setting DWGUNITS - Autodesk Community
Mar 12, 2019 · gile, thank you but that does not apply to Map3D. Here is the command and options in Map3D for DWGUNITS. I am trying to Programatically set DWGUNITS. Command: …
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.
Converting a drawing done in mm to inches
Oct 14, 2019 · As an if-all-else-fails precaution, I've printed various views of the product and drawn out dimension lines and references to a key with all the measurements shown in …
Why are millimeters the smallest drawing unit available?
Jun 12, 2015 · Millimeters 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 …