I'm having problems with old Engineers in my office. These guys want to use inches in all of the drawings! I'm sure you've heard the age saying that only professions that use inches are Architects and Ladies of the Night Its driving me nuts to work in Architectural units and I'm getting embarrassing comments from other departments. Unfortunately for me I'm only a support person and I can not just lay down the law and tell them use decimals of a foot like the rest of the world. Is there any way you can ease my pain? By the way they do not get my CAD file.
Frustrated
John
Some of the old dinosaurs in my office do things similarly. To use Architectural units in a Civil plan that I am developing drives me nuts too and frankly I feel that it is a bit embarassing for a Civil/Surveyor to use inches. I'll let you in a couple things things I have done to work around this problem:
Firstly, when I receive drawings in inches I scale them down by 1/12 and use 0,0,0 as my base point. Note that you can actually enter �1/12� in at the command line and AutoCAD will do the math. If I need to give Inches-person a drawing back I do the scale the drawing again and they can work in their own way. Use just a simple scale of 12 and 0,0 base points again as you scale the drawing.
Secondly, I've created a new dimension style. When I create this style I usually name it �Archi�and will set a dimension scale factor of 12. I set the units to �Architectural� and the dimension will scale perfectly.
These two things allow me to work as I'm used to and if I ship the drawing off to another entity I do not have to feel so bad about looking stupid.
I hope that help
Jim
PS please see page for more information on scaling drawings.
