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JaimeEspinoza

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Hi there

Is it possible to change the scale units? I tried changing project units, which changes everything but scales, so now I have an imperial project with metric scales. 

Thanks in advice

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For questions like this, your HELP is always the first, best source.

Not sure what you are asking. 

Units... There is project units.  Individual annotative elements like dimensions, spot elevations etc can be set to project units or can be set independent of project units.  Text is defined by type.

View scales are set by view or by applied view template (if assigned in a template that is assigned to the view).  In 2013 & 2014 this view template essentially is locked.  You don't say what you are using and you should.

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JaimeEspinoza

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Of course I've read help, Autodesk wikihelp, did a massive google search, but still can't find a way to solve this.

The thing is, I have a metric project that I need to convert to imperial. It's based on a custom template, so I can't just start a new one from default imperial. 

I have changed everything in "project units", but the view scale (and the viewport title) is still in a metric format.

Hope it's clearer now.

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As I said:  "...View scales are set by view or by applied view template (if assigned in a template that is assigned to the view).  In 2013 & 2014 this view template essentially is locked.  You don't say what you are using and you should...."

So you still don't say what version of Revit you are using.  I don't understand...do you want our help?

Please reread the above!

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I'm using 2014. I'm not trying to change the scale value. What I'm trying to do is to change from -for example- 1:24 scale to 1/2"=1'-0". 

I don't think view templates has anything to do here and yes, there's no one assigned.

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Exactly what I am talking about.  It is called "VIEW SCALE".  You have to activate the view and set it there.  And as I said, in 2014, if you have a view template assigned to the view, then that will control the view and either you remove the template and set the scale, remove the view scale from that template and set the scale, or you modify the view scale in that template.

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