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Editing dimensions and dimension overrides - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2018 Essential Training
Editing dimensions and dimension overrides
- [Voiceover] We're staying in the 09_Dimensioning.dwg file, and I'm zoomed in to that top left corner where we worked on the dimensions previously. So you can see the 3532 dimension, the 1830 dimension, and the 915 radial dimension. Now obviously, those dimensions right now are metric and in millimeters, and everything in this drawing has been drawn in metric. Now we've got to be careful here. Don't just go into your dimension style if you want to edit your dimensions and make them imperial dimensions. Gotta be really careful with this. You gotta check your units first. Now, if I got to units, if I just type units and press Enter, that'll bring up the units dialogue box. Now at the moment, these are decimal units, and they are millimeters. What would happen if I changed that to say, Engineering, like so? And I then said okay to that. Now, you can see there, with Architectural or Engineering Linear Units, Insert Units should be set to Inches. Now, that's when you're inserting blocks…
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