If your DWG Units setting is off – which happens somewhat rarely – you can fix it by following these steps. If not, objects such as your blocks will scale incorrectly when placed.Ĭertain ACAD 2007 proxies can change these settings – one of many reasons it's incredibly important to follow our steps to clean your drawings and Xrefs. This setting should definitely match your drawing units setting. The DWG Units (-DWGUNITS) setting determines how objects are inserted and scaled into your drawing. How to verify your units DWG Units (-DWGUNITS) You can easily verify that your units are set correctly in an existing drawing by drawing and measuring a polyline. What does this mean for you as the designer? You need to be extremely diligent in confirming the units. So the term 'unitless' is misleading it's very much hard set to a unit type. So no matter what you change the units of the drawing to be, the line will still extend from 0,0 to 10,10. Note there is no Unit specified – just the numeric coordinates. The Simpson Strong-Tie Drawing Finder for AutoCAD Plugin allows you to insert Simpson products directly into your AutoCAD drawings by pulling the most. The definition of a line in AutoCAD is always something like '0,0 – 10,10.' In this case, the line is extending from the coordinates 0,0 to the coordinates 10,10. AutoCAD is considered 'unitless' by design.

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