How to change unit in AutoCAD drawing

You can change unit in AutoCAD drawing using UN command but it does not scale your drawing to fit the new units. To ensure your drawing scale also changes with respect to the new unit you need to either use scale command and use a conversion factor to scale your drawing. Or You can use [ ]

You can change unit in AutoCAD drawing using UN command but it does not scale your drawing to fit the new units.

To ensure your drawing scale also changes with respect to the new unit you need to either use scale command and use a conversion factor to scale your drawing.

Or…

You can use a command that I am about to explain here, which will do the scale conversion as well automatically.

So, essentially in this article I will share all the methods that you can use to change the unit in AutoCAD drawing.

I have also made this video to explain these tips in detail, In case you don’t prefer the video scroll below for the article.

Method 1: Using -DWGUNITS command

Let’s assume that you have a drawing which is in imperial units (inches) and you want to convert it into metric units (mm), let’s name that drawing Sample.dwg.

This is an easy method of converting the unit of drawing but it will work only for AutoCAD 2009 and later versions.