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Setting up working units

Setting up working units - Archicad Tutorial

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Setting up working units

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- [Voiceover] Next we're gonna set up the working units. And to do that, we're gonna go to Options, Project Preferences, Working Units. So, here you can choose the units that you prefer to work with. So, if you like modeling your project in millimeters, you can choose here. Or centimeters, meters. Or even feet and inches if you prefer. And it doesn't really matter for ArchiCAD if you start in one and someone picks up your project and this someone prefers to work in meters. It's fine, he can go ahead and change. This is specific to the user. It's not the project unit. It's just the unit that you want to work with. So I'm gonna be working in millimeters here. You can choose the one that you prefer. And this is when you're modeling. So, the model unit. How many decimals you like to work with. What's the precision you need? And also, the layout units. So this is the units that we're gonna be using when we're gonna be placing the drawings into the sheets, into the layout sheet. So, I also…

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