INSUNITS (System Variable)

Specifies a drawing-units value for automatic scaling of blocks, images, or xrefs when inserted or attached to a drawing.

Type: Integer
Saved in: Drawing
Initial value: 1 (imperial) or 4 (metric)
Note: The INSUNITS setting is ignored when inserting annotative blocks into a drawing.

Value

Description

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

Angstroms

12

Nanometers

13

Microns

14

Decimeters

15

Dekameters

16

Hectometers

17

Gigameters

18

Astronomical Units

19

Light Years

20

Parsecs

21

US Survey Feet

Note: US Survey Feet is a historical survey unit that's about 2 parts per million larger than the International Feet unit. This difference is significant only at scales used for mapping in the U.S. The US Survey Feet setting is supported only for inserting or attaching drawings starting with AutoCAD 2017-based products. Drawings opened in prior versions will treat the US Survey Feet setting as Unitless.