Unit conversion

[Boston7]

Hello i would like to inquire about unit conversion from inches to centimeter. Anyone knows?

[ericepv]

Edit / Preferences / New Plans (in General menu) / select 'Metric  Units' at top

[Boston7]

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!

[Boston7]

[ericepv]

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

[Doug_N]

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.

 

[DBCooper]

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.