Boston7 Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 Hello i would like to inquire about unit conversion from inches to centimeter. Anyone knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericepv Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 Edit / Preferences / New Plans (in General menu) / select 'Metric Units' at top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boston7 Posted November 5 Author Share Posted November 5 Thank you for your prompt response, I did follow what you mentioned BUT need to convert units to EXISTING drawn plan and not a new plan, Can you guide me please? thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ericepv Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 For an existing plan, take a look at this https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00055/displaying-metric-and-imperial-units-on-a-single-dimension-line.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug_N Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 1 hour ago, Boston7 said: Thank you for your prompt response, I did follow what you mentioned BUT need to convert units to EXISTING drawn plan and not a new plan, Can you guide me please? thanks! Double click on a dimension line Click on define. At this point you can convert all the dimensions using this definition to some other units, or add a secondary format with different units And the result is this! Hopefully this fully answers your question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCooper Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 Just to be clear, there is no way that I know of to actually convert an imperial plan into metric or vice versa. You can modify the dimensions to display in metric or even both if you like. Just follow Doug's instructions above. Under the hood everything will still be in imperial units and you will see this in all of the dialog boxes. If you need to actually convert the plan into metric, you would need to redraw it starting with a metric template plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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