Hello,
first of all please excuse me for the question but I'm really new with CAD applications.
I would like to know if the Drawing Unit (Drawing Preferences:General:Drawing Unit) is automatically set after I open a drawing.
I'm asking this since I have noticed some incongruences between the Drawing Unit and the length values I read in the Property Editor.
I try to explain better was I'm experiencing.
I open a .DWG file created with another CAD application ( I don't know )
I look at the Drawing Preferences:General:Drawing Unit = mm, Paper Unit = mm
I select a line and I get the length in the Property Editor : 5000 it is in mm. Correct.
I open another .DWG file created with another CAD application ( I don't know )
I look at the Drawing Preferences:General:Drawing Unit = mm, Paper Unit = mm
I select a line and I get the length in the Property Editor : 2.5 is in m. The measure is correct, the line is 2500 mm, but it is displayed in a different unit of measure.
Is there a way to know the unit of measure of the values I read in the Property Editor ?
Is there a way to extract this info from the document ?
Thank you.
sramp
Drawing Unit
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Re: Drawing Unit
QCAD reads the drawing unit from the drawing file. Drawing Preferences > General > Drawing Unit is the right place to check.
Some applications might treat CAD drawings as unit less, leaving the interpretation of measures up to the user.
In QCAD, units play a role when printing a drawing to scale or when drawing are mixed using copy / paste or when inserting blocks from the part library.
Some applications might treat CAD drawings as unit less, leaving the interpretation of measures up to the user.
In QCAD, units play a role when printing a drawing to scale or when drawing are mixed using copy / paste or when inserting blocks from the part library.