Converting a project from mm to cm?

odedia

Hi everyone.

I just spent a few hours building out a floor plan for the first time using sketchup (for the first time).

Only when I was done a started moving some furnutuire in, I released that all the units I was working on was in milimeters instead of centimeters.

Is there any quick way to change the complete using of measurement? I want to keep the same values, just have it in CM instead of MM. Starting all over would be a real pain

Thanks!

Tobobo

yes go to model info and then units. There you can chnage the units into cm. However you may need to scale the drawing up by 10 or 100 sorry it's friday night the corona went down too well. When you have changed the units use the tape tool, measure a length that you know the distance of, then type that distance into the vcb. A dialog box will open checking if you want to rescale the model click yes/ok and it should scale the model accodingly.

Hope i was clear in my intoxicated state.

Good luck

Toby

Tobobo

Thanks TIG,

in the cold light of the hang over , you said what I was trying to say.

odedia

Thank you very much, it worked great!

TIG

First off Model Info >> Change Units to cm rather than mm... Everything is always made the correct size whatever the units you are using...

However, you've made everything in mm thinking them to be cm, so you have made something 100[mm] thinking it was 100[cm] - i.e. 10 times too small.

There are 2 ways to rescale everything...

Method one: 'select all' to highlight everything in the model [check nothing is off/hidden/locked etc] and then use scale about a diagonal corner pair of handles x10.
Everything should now be x10 bigger and therefore the sizes you originally expected.
Since you now have you model units in cm anything you make from now on will be the correct size when entered [in cm]...

The other way you can rescale the whole model is this... Use the tape measure tool, pick a vertex point and stretch the tool cursor out say 100, now immediately type 1000 and a dialog pops up asking if you want to scale the model, if you say yes the whole model is scaled by 10 - every 100 dimension is now 1000.... mm have become cm...