From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
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Setting drawing units - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
Setting drawing units
- [Instructor] We're starting another chapter now in our AutoCad Essential Training and we're going to start looking at using units, and also the Options dialog box in AutoCad as well, to change some of the settings. We'll also move into looking at drawing template files as well, the dwt file format. So we've got a new drawing for you and it's called ManagingFiles dot dwg, and what we're going to look at is setting our drawing units. Now right now, this particular drawing is a metric millimeters drawing. You can see that from the coordinate readout down on the status bar. As you move around in context, you can see that those distances as we move are obviously in millimeters. They're not in meters 'cause that would make for a very large floor plan. Now the idea being with your units is you can go in and set the units at any time. You can just type units, like so. It comes up there on the dynamic input, and as you can see on the suggestion menu there, you've got units right at the top…
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