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Replace default Imperial Autocad templates with Metric versions

  • April 27, 2017
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kimo
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Since every country in the world except The USA, The Gambia and Myanmar is now using metric units could we have a set of default templates in FME in metric units? Or at least an option to switch back to Imperial?

Does anyone in a metric country have a set of default.dwg, (and 2007, 2010, 2013 versions) for FME that they could share?

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daveatsafe
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  • April 27, 2017

A very good question! I have created an enhancement request to have this done.

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  • April 27, 2017

I notice that Autocad uses a template format *.dwt that is common on the web. Would that be a better format to support since there are many templates for different applications readily available. eg Civil_Metric.dwt might be better for utilities than the plain defaultISO.dwt

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  • May 2, 2017

FME can use .dwt files as well for the template files - just choose *.dwt for the file filter.

You can find a useful set of templates at https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/downloads/caas/downloads/content/autocad-2017-templates.html.

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  • May 3, 2017

FME can use .dwt files as well for the template files - just choose *.dwt for the file filter.

You can find a useful set of templates at https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/downloads/caas/downloads/content/autocad-2017-templates.html.

What about the defaults in the Autocad folder? Can these be .dwt files. Could I rename Civil_Metric.dwt default.dwt? I cannot find any historic templates. What is an easy way to check the units in an Autocad drawing? I see it is a major issue even for Autocad users. I had an idea to export the template to a DXF file which can then be read as a text file. It appears that units names are not stored in the drawing, the coordinates are just numbers. I thought I would find a page name for A1 and did in an AcDbBictionary. Is that all?

 

 

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