engineering units

Ross
Ross Posts: 5
in Peer Support

How can I change measurements, dimensions & calibration, from architectural to engineering units?

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  • Luke Shiras
    Luke Shiras Posts: 450
    edited January 17 Answer ✓

    Ah, yes. I poked around and found this. When a dimension is selected, these options show up at the top. Switch to the ft option and it will give you decimal feet.

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  • Luke Shiras
    Luke Shiras Posts: 450

    You should have engineering scales as an option when you set the scale on the sheet. Are you looking for something other than what's available or do you mean something different?

    https://support.bluebeam.com/en-us/revu/how-to/set-the-page-scale-on-drawing.html

  • Ross
    Ross Posts: 5

    Luke thanks - I mean different. After setting a custom scale for a certain drawing sheet (that's an engineering plan) I want dimensioning (measurements) to show as e.g. 23.25 ft, and 106.5 ft, and not as e.g. 23'-3", and 106'-6".

    In other words decimal feet.

  • Jes Stafford
    Jes Stafford Posts: 105

    So who remembers poking around in units menus in AutoCAD and discovering that they go all the way up to LIGHTYEARS!?!

    ~j

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