INSUNITS system variable

Insertion units

Controls the unit used to scale blocks, images or XRefs, when they are inserted into a drawing. When both the INSUNITS and PROPUNITS system variables are on, length, area, volume and/or inertia properties are formatted with their respective unit(s).

Note: It does not convert current drawing units.

See also the LUNITS and MEASUREMENT system variables

Type:

Short
Saved in:

Drawing
Range:

0 to 24
Default value:

1
Possible values:

0: Unspecified (No units)

1: Inches

2: Feet

3: Miles

4: Millimeters

5: Centimeters

6: Meters

7: Kilometers

8: Microinches

9: Mils

10: Yards

11: Ångströms

12: Nanometers

13: Microns

14: Decimeters

15: Decameters

16: Hectometers

17: Gigameters

18: Astronomical Units

19: Light-years

20: Parsecs

21: US Survey Feet

22: US Survey Inch

23: US Survey Yard

24: US Survey Mile