Drawing Units from BricsCad to Autocad

Breda_Murphy
Breda_Murphy
edited October 31 in 2D Drafting

I issued a CAD drawing to a client in meters. They proceeded to open same in Autocad Lite and informed me that drawing units of the drawing was is mm and for me to adjust same back to meters.

I had another look at my drawing and drawing units are set to meters. So I couldn't understand why when they opened in Autocad Lite that the drawing had changed to mm.

I had never seen this before but maybe it can happen. Is there a way to stop this from happening? Thanks.

Comments

  • zoomer
    zoomer

    If your INSUNITS (insertion units) are set to Meters,
    you have done everything right and I have no idea what to do.

    If your INSUNITS are mm and only Length-, Area-, … Units are set to Meter
    to format DYNDIMS and such to work with Meter inputs,
    I think you would need to change your INSUNITS and scale you whole
    drawing afterwards.
    (I had a discussion with support and there should be a way to change
    INSUNITS without scaling needed a tried a few times and was not able to
    do so without scaling)

  • Wiebe van der Worp
    Wiebe van der Worp
    edited October 31

    For the automatic calculation of scale factors when inserting blocks and, exclusively with BricsCAD, when pasting blocks (ctrl-shift-v) or objects (ctrl-v), the following rules are used:

    • Only if the value for INSBASE of a block to be inserted is 0, then the value of INSUNITSDEFSOURCE is used.
    • Only if the value for INSBASE of the current drawing is 0, then the value of INSUNITSDEFTARGET is used.

    (source https://vanderworp.org/cad-insert-and-units/ )

  • ALANH
    ALANH

    Like the others sound like they inserted the dwg into another dwg. I have had dwg scale like 1 / 0.3048 which is a feet to metres scaling and yes like above both dwg have to be set the same. At first glance they look alike as lengths are in decimals.