Hi!

I have a drawing in inches and wanted to change it to millimeters.  So here's how I did that:

Firstly, I entered "MEASUREMENT" as a command (I guess DraftSight calls this AutoCAD property "SETUNTTYP") to change the measurement units from 0 (inches) to 1 (millimeters).

Next, I scaled all of the elements in the drawing, using the origin (0, 0, 0) as the base point and entered a scale factor of 25.4.

Now, I'm getting some strange results from the GETDISTANCE command.

Here's an example: I have a block instance that is supposed to be 48" inches (1219.2 mm).  Before changing the units and scaling the drawing, GETDISTANCE reported this block to indeed be 48 units.  After changing the drawing to millimeters, GETDISTANCE now reports that this same block measures... ...48 units.  At first glance, it appears that the object wasn't scaled from inches to millimeters.  But wait, if I use GETXY to measure the position of each side of the block, I get X co-ordinate values of -127859.735156 and -129078.935156, giving me a width of 1219.2.  Hmmm...  How can that be?

If I look at the block's properties, I see that it has a scale factor in each dimension of 25.4,  Is it possible that GETDISTANCE is reporting the width of the object, but not factoring in its scale?  Am I missing some configuration setting?

Thanks for any assistance you might be able to provide!

Mike