Drawing Units

Entities in transfer files are always measured in millimetres. The units active in Outfitting Draft or ISODRAFT when the drawing is sent to AutoDRAFT are added to the transfer file as a DXF comment. The AutoDRAFT start-up mechanism automatically queries the units and scales the Outfitting Draft/ISODRAFT drawing data if INCH units are specified.

Note:
If you create a DXF transfer file in Outfitting Draft using the PLOT command (refer to Creating the DXF-Format Transfer File from Draft) then the comment inserted into the DXF transfer file to automate the setting up of AutoCAD units will not be added.

If you then want to read such a DXF transfer file into AutoDRAFT, using INCHES as units type, then the transfer file needs to be altered manually by appending the following to the end of the file:

999 P

DMS_UNITS INCH

These should be the last two lines of the transfer file. There should be no white space to the left of this text.