When importing you can select if you want it to be 2d or 3d etc...
all good and well but then 99% of the world has to click and select anything but the default INCH setting if they want to end up with an imported model that they can work with.
There for, does anyone know how to make it so that when importing that the default setting is something else but Imperial measurements?
Worse.... a 3d Acad.DWG
Peter,
I'm guessing you are talking about importing a dwg file. check this: Acad 2D drawing Import to Solidworks with units default to Millimeters haven't tried it, just found it out there.
Paul
Paul,
Cheers, that does indeed work.
Unfortunately it only moves the problem.
Now instead of not forgetting to click the mm setting while importing one must not forget to do all those clicks in Acad.
The chance that the original drafter/designer is willing and able to adjust this in his template is not exactly great and besides it relies on them working with an actual Acad version (or a vertical of it)
Thank you though, it's a good solution to know.
Try System Options / Default Templates and point towards metric templates.
Select "Always use these default [...]" if you plan on using only metric.
Select "Prompt user to select [...]" if you want to select the proper template at each time.
Voilà!
Bonne fin de journée Peter.
Florimond,
Merci bien mais ça c'est pas que je besoin.
I'm responsible for making and maintaining all the templates we use (>30) and all of them are purely metric, that I'm very sure about.
To help clarify
I'm looking for a way, if possible, that this is set to mm instead of Inches independently of any setting in DWG, because those are also always metric.
Well, I just made a test and when my original dwg documents is in millimeters, this option in yellow is millimeters.
what version of Solidworks do you use Peter? I use 2014 SP 5.0.
Hello Peter,
What are you importing? A step file?