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i have an existing drawing and the dimension are in feet and inches but i want to change the dimension of the existing drawing into meters or mm. How to do this thanks and more power

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If you drew it in feet and inches, and it needs to be in mm you need to scale everything up by 25.4, then you have to change your units to decimal. then you need to update your dimension style to a decimal type unit, and do a DIM UPD to make your existing dimensions take on the reset style.
You'll probably need a different dimscale and plot scale now too.

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