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Converting drawing units - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
Converting drawing units
- [Instructor] We've got a new drawing for you now in this chapter. It's called ConvertingUnits.dwg and as usual, you can download it from the website and use it accordingly to follow along with the videos. Now when you open up this drawing, ConvertingUnits.dwg, take a look at the units that you've got in the coordinates down on the status bar. You'll notice that it's all in imperial units and if I type units, what you'll find is that it's all set to architectural and you can see that the precision there in the length is set to a quarter of an inch. You'll notice that the angle is set to decimal degrees with a precision of no decimal places. Now, this is all set to work with imperial inches but what happens if you need to convert the drawing units? Let me just cancel the drawing units dialogue box, first of all, and what you can do is, if you ever need to measure anything in context and check the length of a line or the width of a door opening or a window opening, you can use the…
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