I want help to make a lisp which change the drawing units from millimeters to meters without changing the coordinates

[nafees]

PLEASE HELP ME TO MAKE A LISP FOR SETTING DRWING UNITS FROM MILIMETER TO METERS
TYPE COMMAD DWGUNITS
DWGUNITS UNIT FOR LENGTH 6 (METER)
DWGUNITS LINER DISPLAY FORMAT 2
DWGUNITS LINEAR DISPLAY PRECISION 3
DWGUNITS SCALE OBJECTS FROM OTHER DRAWINGS UPON INSERT? [YES NO] YES
DWGUNITS MATCH INSUNITS TO DRAWING UNITS? [YES NO] YES
DWGUNITS SCALE OBJECTS IN CURRENT DRAWING TO REFLECT CHANGE IN UNITS? [YES NO] YES
DWGUNITS INCLUDE OBJECTS IN PAPER SPACE? [YES NO] YES
 

[BIGAL]

Hidden behind DWGUNITS is various variables,

 

length (setvar 'insunits 6)

Format (setvar 'lunits 2)

precision (setvar 'Luprec 3)

maybe, not sure

(setvar 'INSUNITSDEFSOURCE  6)
(setvar ' INSUNITSDEFTARGET  6)
(setvar ' INSUNITSSCALING  2)

 

maybe also (setvar 'measurement 1)

 

Edited May 26 by BIGAL

[nafees]

i am very new for making lisp i make like the following codes but its not working 
(defun c:dwgunit ()
  (command "_.DWGUNIT")
  (command "6" "")
  (command "Yes" "")
  (command "Yes" "")
  (command "Yes" "")
  (command "Yes" "")
  (princ)
)
 

[BIGAL]

yeah problems with "(command dwgunit"

 

(defun c:dwgu ( / )
(setvar 'insunits 6)
(setvar 'lunits 2)
(setvar 'Luprec 3)
(setvar 'INSUNITSDEFSOURCE  6)
(setvar 'INSUNITSDEFTARGET  6)
(setvar 'INSUNITSSCALING  2)
(princ)
)

 

 

Edited May 29 by BIGAL

[nafees]

; error: AutoCAD variable setting rejected: INSUNITSSCALING 2
THE ABOVE ERROR IS COMING WHILE I AM MAKING THIS LISP 

 

[SLW210]

I moved your thread to the AutoLISP, Visual LISP & DCL Forum. Please post in the most appropriate forum.

[BIGAL]

Oops a typo recheck above.

[nafees]

MY BAD, STILL I AM NOT ABLE TO MAKE THE LISP 

[SLW210]

AutoCAD may not have INSUNITSSCALING.

 

I removed that and it ran on AutoCAD 2000i on my home computer.

 

Perhaps you should look through the related System Variables (sysvar) for yourself and see what value you need.

 

You could also do all of this with an ACADDOC.lsp, I set all of my relevant  system variables that way.

 

You could also set up a drawing template and or create this as a Script file and run in a batch process.

[BIGAL]

Dont know what happened i edited the other day, but there was a space in the setvar the typo.

 

Resaved above

 

[nafees]

i removed extra spaces 
(defun c:dwgu ( / )
(setvar 'insunits 6)
(setvar 'lunits 2)
(setvar 'Luprec 3)
(setvar 'INSUNITSDEFSOURCE 6)
(setvar 'INSUNITSDEFTARGET 6)
(setvar 'INSUNITSSCALING 2)
(princ)
)
but result is still the same "Command: DWGU
; error: AutoCAD variable setting rejected: INSUNITSSCALING 2"

[nafees]

or should it be like this but still it is not working 


(defun set-dwgunits ()
  (command "DWGUNITS" "UNIT" "6" "METER")
  (command "DWGUNITS" "LINER" "DISPLAY" "FORMAT" "2")
  (command "DWGUNITS" "LINEAR" "DISPLAY" "PRECISION" "3")
  (command "DWGUNITS" "SCALE" "OBJECTS" "FROM" "OTHER" "DRAWINGS" "UPON" "INSERT?" "YES")
  (command "DWGUNITS" "MATCH" "INSUNITS" "TO" "DRAWING" "UNITS?" "YES")
  (command "DWGUNITS" "SCALE" "OBJECTS" "IN" "CURRENT" "DRAWING" "TO" "REFLECT" "CHANGE" "IN" "UNITS?" "YES")
  (command "DWGUNITS" "INCLUDE" "OBJECTS" "IN" "PAPER" "SPACE?" "YES")
)

; Run the function
(set-dwgunits)
 

[SLW210]

Did you even bother to read my post?