Revit 2014 Metric Template AutocadConvert Auto. CAD drawing units from imperial to metric. Do you ever received a drawing that use metric, but you are not familiar with that measurement unit Or the other way around You want to convert the drawing to your unit. How can you do thatIn short, there are three ways to do it Scale the drawing manually. Create a new drawing with your preferred unit, then insertbind your drawing there. Using DWGUNITS tool. Auto. CAD 2. 00. 9 or later, more comfortable for experienced users. The 2nd option is the easiest way to do it, as you can see in video below Read on if you want to know other options you have. Auto. CAD doesnt treat the measurement as real measurement. Some other applications allows you to just change the units in option dialog, and the drawing will be adjusted automatically. But not Auto. CAD. Revit 2014 Metric Template BoltEport From Revit To Sketchup 2015 Duration 550. RIM TECH 6,110 views. So how can we convert Auto. CAD drawing units Scale All Objects in the Drawing. The easiest way is by scaling all objects in our Auto. CAD drawing. We know if we receive a drawing in mm, we can convert it to m by selecting all object, scale it by 0. To keep the drawing origin, we can use 0,0 as base point. We can convert from inch to mm by scaling all objects by 2. Advertisement this article continues below. Command scale. Select objects ALL8. Welcome to the forums. You can change the default template Revit uses for your project file and families from the applications menu the big R in the top left. Hi, this is my blog, and also a guestbook. I publish stuff I do from time to time. Be welcome and feel at home, have a coffee and dont hesitate to drop. Select objects Specify base point 0,0. Specify scale factor or CopyReference 0. Remember to change units after you scale your drawing. If you scale your drawing to cm, change units to cm. To change units, simply type UNITS then change the insertion unit. Insert the Drawing File as Block or Reference. There is another way that we can do. We can insert the drawing to another Auto. All Pdf Books Of Humayun Ahmed. CAD drawing, and let Auto. CAD to convert the unit automatically. This method also allows you to work with multiple drawings that use different units. For example, you use metric for architectural design. The MEP guys need to use imperial because the MEP standard parts are not available in metric. Or you may receive block libraries that use imperial from the manufacturer, but you work with metric. This method allows you not only convert it, but also work with different drawing unit. Let us try to open a drawing sample. I use AS 0. 1. dwg from sheetset sample. I try to measure the drawing and get the result in imperial. Well, most of Auto. CAD samples are in imperial Set the Source Drawing Unit. Using imperial unit is painful for me. I want to convert it to metric. Let us check the drawing units. Jerry Garcia Flac. You can access it from Auto. CAD menu drawing utilities units. We can see that the unit is already defined correctly. The insertion scale is set to inches. Create a New Drawing with Target Unit. Now create a new Auto. CAD drawing. Use one of the metric template available. Check if the insertion scale in drawing units is set to mm. Activate insert block. First time you activate the dialog, the block unit should show unitless. Doesnt matter. Browse for the file. After you click open and back to this dialog, you should see the block unit 2 now is showing inches. The conversion factor is now set to 2. To make sure the drawing is still using its origin, use 0,0,0 as the block insertion point. Now because you are inserting the file as block, you may want to explode it. You can also use external reference XREF to do this. Check the Conversion Result. Now let us see if it works. Try to measure the same distance, and see what you get. This time I get the measurement in mm About Edwin Prakoso. I work as an Application Engineer in Jakarta, Indonesia. Ive been using Auto. CAD since R1. 4 and Revit since Revit Building 9. I occasionally write for AUGIWorld magazine and also active in Autodesk discussion forum. Im certified as Revit Architecture 2. Auto. CAD 2. 01. 4 certified professional. Im also a member of Autodesk Expert Elite, appreciation for individuals who give contribution to Autodesk community. Connect with me on twitter or Linked.