Metric .DWT file

[bbankston]

Can anyone spare their default metric .dwt file? I deleted mine thinking that I'll never use them and lo and behold, I need it.

 

I appreciate it.

 

Brandon Bankston

[Jack_O'neill]

I have a architectural, civil, electrical, manufacturing, mep, and structural metric template. You want one or all?

[Jack_O'neill]

I found one on my 2007 machine called "metric layout templates.dwt" You can have that one too if you want

 

edit---I gotta leave for a while, if you dont find the ones you need and want any or all of these, drop me an email and I'll send them to you. Should be back in about 3 hours.

[cadvision]

Do you have a preference for size? I have ones made of A1 & A3 paper sizers, my default is electrical drawings

[Stefan BMR]

You may find acadiso.dwt in autocad installation folder ...\UserDataCache\Template. Under UserDataCache there are some other important default settings and original files, in case you alter or accidentally delete those used by AutoCAD.

 

EDIT: Usually the folder UserDataCache is hidden.. but i guess is not to hard to get there...

Edited November 23, 2011 by Stefan BMR

[bbankston]

Stefan BMR,

 

Thanks for that. I didn't know about that little hidey-hole. And thanks to everyone else for replying.

 

Here's the jist of why I needed it. My company has recently been bought out by a Mexican company and they produce glass fabrication drawings to us dimensioned in 1/32. I told the head honcho that none of our fabricators read in 32s and that they should just change their dimensioning to 1/16. They said that if they do that (since they work in Metric) some information could be lost from redrawing the Imperial piece back to Metric. I told them it's really very simple - Just draw the shape in Metric and dimension it in Imperial using the multiplier. Now, I've done this before drawing my shapes in inches and putting the Alternate units in Metric but not vice-versa. Since I've found the hidden .DWT files using the path that Stefan BMR gave me I can't seem to get my Imperial units to look right. See attached.

 

[bbankston]

Any suggestions?

 

Here's what my dimstyles palette looks like:

 

[eldon]

It looks as though the fraction part of your alternative dimension has been shrunk and the screen resolution of the dimstyles palette cannot cope.

 

Probably easier to check the system variable DIMTFAC which is the scaling of the fractional part.

[bbankston]

eldon,

 

I just changed it to "fractional" instead of "fractional stacked" and that fixed it. I tried your fix but it didn't do anything after I set it to "1", which is what it was already on.

 

Thanks anyway.