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Change Units and Scale - How to change units from inches to cm and scale drawing
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RustyL  
#1 Posted : Friday, February 10, 2017 7:04:38 PM(UTC)
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Hi All,

I have a need to work in both inches and cm in ViaCAD. Working in both units has just landed me in trouble. I have created a set of drawings with the units set to inches when they should have been cm. I discovered this when I tried to import a part from an other drawing (which was in cm) into the current drawing and it was much smaller than expected. oops!

Clearly I'd rather not spend several hours re-creating the drawing from scratch using the correct units.

I am having trouble finding a simple way to change the units to cm, and cause everything to scale down accordingly (current dimensions * .39370079) at the same time. Is there a way to do this?

I am using viaCAD9 2d/3d.

Appreciate any help I can get!

Regards.
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horst.w  
#2 Posted : Saturday, February 11, 2017 2:35:51 AM(UTC)
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I create all drawn in the mm scale and to transfer it to inches it makes no problems, when I switch the used units in the Preferences.
Perhaps it is recommended to work with switched copies.
Testing this, I copied the switched object to a new workplane scaled in inches, it is shown in inches and I could it switch back to mm instandly.

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horst.w, GER

Edited by user Saturday, February 11, 2017 2:37:14 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

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RustyL on 2/11/2017(UTC)
MaiFy  
#3 Posted : Saturday, February 11, 2017 4:20:13 AM(UTC)
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Hi Rusty
Also in addition to what horst suggested
I would try the gripper tool.
I hope the attached makes sense. :-)
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RustyL on 2/11/2017(UTC)
RustyL  
#4 Posted : Saturday, February 11, 2017 5:27:11 AM(UTC)
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Thank you both for your responses.

In the end, using the Gripper tool was exactly what I was looking for. Worked perfectly. Thank you MaiFy! :-))
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