convert a part from metric to english units

[cncmstr1962]

I have a part file that was created in metric units, and I would like to change it to english

I Dont know how to - or if even can be done

if anyone can answer please do so.

[crazy^millman]

Use the scale and a factor of .03937 and see ifthat takes care of it for you.

 

HTH

[Rick Henrickson The Boeing Co.]

cant you convert on inport to

[jeff]

For V9: Xform/scale and select Move and Uniform

deselect "use construction attributes".

# of moves set to 1

and 1/25.4 for the scale factor (.03937)

 

HTH

[Thee Starry™]

Click on SETTINGS then click CONFIGURATION. On the bottom of that window is a drop down that says "DEFAULT (English)(Startup), if you click the arrow nest to it is gives you the Metric Option. If your part is open, then it will, once you click on the option you want, prompt you to change and scale it to the desired option, click yes, and woohoo, you are there!

[cncmstr1962]

Starry69 thanks for the solution.

[Thad]

Holy mouse click, Batman! Scaling sounds much easier to me.

 

Thad

[Ocean Lacky™]

Quite coincedentally, after reading this thread yesterday morning, I had a similar occurance yesterday afternoon. A part I imported from another program was accidentally created using metric units. Dimensionally speaking, Id've been lucky to get this part into the building, much less get it properly located in the forging die I was working on at the time. Thanks to Ron's scaling factor of .03937, I didn't lose a step in getting the job done.

 

 

Once again, This Forum comes through.

 

Thanx again to all who make it what it is!

[3R!< W3NG3R]

Changing the part to english through the config settings always seems to be more accurate to me.

[Müřlıń®]

Either way works pretty good for me.

 

 

If you have a huge metric distance to scale, you might want to scale it with a factor of 1/25.4 to keep the round off error as close as possible.

 

I always used .03936 as to err on the small side.

 

Sometimes scaling can be a problem on solids if someone blanks some of thechains used to make the solid.

 

Those need to be scaled up too or your solid will not regen.

 

I think that is where if you just change from inches to mm in the config, MC will scale all the entities and you wioll not have to go through the blank layer and try to pick out the solid chains.

[Hardmill]

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Sometimes scaling can be a problem on solids if someone blanks some of thechains used to make the solid.

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Use the No-hist chook and make a dumb solid.

 

 

PEACE

[Mr. Dayshift]

I'd go with the config settings 'for now'.

[Storkman]

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make a dumb solid.

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Naw........too easy.

[toolall1]

i read in in metric save the file then open it make shure youre config is set to english and it should prompt you then to change to english

[Müřlıń®]

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make a dumb solid.

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Ya, you could do that....

 

But if you want your solid to go to college when it grows up, you might want a little intelligence factored in

[Hardmill]

Someone says "dumb" and you boys come runnin'

 

 

PEACE