![]() Setting the Annotation Scale to 1" = 30" produces the same text and arrow size as your other dimension style in case you're unfamiliar with Annotative dimensions. As long as you keep making the same mistake you will keep getting the same results. Why did you even add a Linear Child dimension style? You couldn't get the wrong dimension in what I sent you. Only after you set Scale Factor to 1/12 instead of 1. I know I'm missing something basic but though I've been using AutoCad for more than 10 years, I can count on one hand the number of property / land drawings I've done. Per Dana's suggestion I've saved both your drawing and the first one I got to work as templates. ![]() However, it seems odd that within that same drawing (see attached revision of yours) I can have a line that is annotated as 1.02' that's clearly longer than a line annotated 10.25'. I can get Decimal feet to work both in how I enter dimensions and how they're annotated. The unit in the dimstyles simply renames whatever units the drawing units are. The UNITS command (Drawing utilities) DOES NOT change the drawing units, only the Display Units, as in MEASURE > DISTANCE. This can happen if -DWGUNITS and UNITS don't match up. This saves people who start a drawing in imperial (U.S.A.) units and discover only when trying to scale a viewport or set up a dimstyle, that the drawing is actually in millimeters. It can also re-scale your modelspace objects to fit any measurement unit all at once. Accuracy is up to 5 decimal places for meters to feet and to the nearest 16th of an inch for meters. It will convert the units for any dwg to any other unit. To find the inch value, multiply the fractional part by 12. Fraction Decimal Decimal of an inch of an inch of a foot Fraction of an inch Decimal of an inch. acadiso.dwt is metric (millimeters) I named my surveyors template FEET.dwt, lol.Īnd look into the command -DWGUNITS. On a foundation plan, a foot is divided into inches. Otherwise you will have to change all the units parameters for every new drawing.ĭEFAULT drawing templates = acad.dwt is imperial. Set up a template (*.dwt) drawing file and use it to start a new drawing from. Thank you for all your helpĭrawing UNITS live in the individual drawing. However, I started a new drawing to verify my settings work, and though I replicate every drawing utility setting and dimstyle setting, when I type in a line length of 10.25 – I get a 10 and ¼ inch line. ![]() Then via DIMSTYLE, Unit format: Decimal, Precision 0.00, Decimal separator “.”, Scale Factor 1/12 Via Drawing utilities, Type is: Decimal, Insertion scale: Feet In the drawing that’s working as I desired, the settings are: And annotating shows up as well 10.25’ which is what I wanted. entering 10.25 and getting a 10’ 3” line. OK – this is VERY confusing and probably something incredibly stupid on my part. All other dimension styles are set with the Measurement scale Scale factor: set to 1 to display to decimal feet. For dimensioning structures in feet' - inches" I have an Architectural dimension style with the Measurement scale Scale factor: set to 12. ![]() As Land Surveying and Civil work in the US is done in feet that's always been my base unit. ![]()
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