From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 2 Drawing Fundamentals
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Working with metric units - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 2 Drawing Fundamentals
Working with metric units
On my screen, I have an example of a metric drawing. If I open the Units dialog box, you can see that this drawing was created such that each unit represents a millimeter. Based on what we know now, you may think that working in metric is as simple as choosing metric units from this list. It actually goes a little bit beyond that. In this lesson, we're going to learn how to configure AutoCAD to work in a metric environment. I'm going to close this drawing. I won't save changes, and I'd like to create a new drawing. I'll do that by clicking the New icon, and I'm going to select the acad.dwt template. This is the default template that's used each time we launch AutoCAD. It's important to understand that this template represents an imperial working environment. Sure, I could jump out here to my units dialog box and I could set this to millimeters. However, this doesn't convert the entire drawing. As an example, I'm going to accept this change. I'll launch my Plot command, and you can see…
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