Units in referenced viewports

[halfcoupler]

just stumbled over this:

 

I wanted to create an "overview masterplan" with several referenced viewports. The refeference files have millimetres as units.

The masterplan should have meters as units.

Problem: Referenced vieports do not accept the unit setting of the masterplan and keep their original unit setting. Is that right or did I just oversee something ?

May be I'm doing it the completely wrong way ? Or is there a work around ? Or is it not possible at all ?

 

All files VW 2023

 

[halfcoupler]

hm, no one ever had a similar problem ?

 

Meanwhile, I changed the units of all referenced files to meters, created the paperwork I needed, and switched back to milimeters.

Not a very convincing workflow...

[bcd]

A file can have only 2 units of measurements irrespective of the units in the source file : the Primary & Secondary units which are defined via File>Document Settings>Units.

 

You can draw dimensions with either or both the Primary & Secondary units. If your referenced file already has dimensions they will appear identically in the master file. This is what I think you're referring to and is the normal behaviour.

 

An alternative workflow would be to reference the Layers into the Master file via a (depreciated) Layer Link. The dimensions will then update to reflect the units in the Master.

 

 

Edited December 19, 2022 by bcd

[halfcoupler]

Hi @ bcd,

thank you for this answer. That's great, and it works! I totaly forgot about the "old fashioned" way of referencing.

Seems to be precisely what I need, although importing in this way imports the classes of the referenced files too, which I wanted to avoid, but you can't have everythig. 🙂