

This last step is a bit more complicated topic depending on your familiarity with AutoCAD scaling and working with Layouts. Step 3: Editing Custom Scales and Saving. I will now change both to Meters, as shown below. In my example, the template drawing units was in feet and the coordinate system was in Minnesota State Plane Central – US Survey Feet. In the drawing settings windows, you need to change two things: the drawing units and the current coordinate system (if set). Step 2: Changing the Base Unit of Measure and Coordinate System.Ĭlick on the Application Menu (the AutoCAD symbol at the top-left of the Civil 3D window), then click Drawing Utilities and Drawing Settings. Once this file is open, we next must alter the base unit of measure to the one that we want. Application Menu>New>Drawing as shown below.) If your template files are blank drawings with nothing in the Model space, start a new file from your base template like you normally would (e.g. Step 1: Start a new Drawing File with the Existing Template Creating a template from that document into a different unit of measure is as simple as changing a couple of settings and saving the file as a new template file.

Let’s say you work for a company that has a well-defined template with all the layers properly defined, the blocks are available, fonts included, etc.
