Converting Units of Measurement

[e_anders3]

Hi all!

 

I'm working on drawing a railroad spur in AutoCAD 2011. I had an archaeologist get the measurements for me and unfortunately, she measured in units of 10 (i.e. 1 foot = 10 units so each "unit" = 1 1/4"

 

I'm wondering if there's a way in CAD to automatically convert these units. If I could enter 1 and have it come out automatically as 1 1/4" so that I don't have to convert every single measurement.

 

Any help would be appreciated!

 

Thanks!

Emily

[ReMark]

Any chance she actually used decimal feet and inches?

[e_anders3]

Unfortunately no

[e_anders3]

She drew everything "to scale" on 10x10 grid paper. So for example, one railroad tie was drawn as being 4 units wide, which would technically equal 5 inches (since each unit = 1 1/5"). Does that make sense?

[RobDraw]

People don't usually make up their own unit system. I'd be willing to bet that it is decimal feet and 1 unit actually equals 1.2 inches. Especially since 10 units equals 1 foot, as stated in your OP.

[e_anders3]

I suppose that could be the case, I'll have a chat with her later and see if this is what she did. If this is the case, do I just convert each measurement individually, or is there a way for CAD to do that for me? For example, if a tie is .4 units, would I need to convert that to 4.75" and so on? Or is there an easier way to do this? Thanks for all the help!

[RobDraw]

Set your units to decimal feet and just input the values as they are.

[dbroada]

unless I've missed the point I would draw everything full size in "units" as measured and then scale the finished drawing by 1.25

[SLW210]

Scale the Archeologist's drawing to full size by Scale>Reference of a known distance.