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Working with units in an Inventor drawing

Working with units in an Inventor drawing

From the course: Migrating from AutoCAD to Inventor

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Working with units in an Inventor drawing

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- Newer versions of AutoCAD are much more effective at working with units. AutoCAD is still a unitless environment, but predefined templates make it easier to deal with the scaling issues and the size issues for dimensions that AutoCAD users have dealt with for over 30 years. In this video, let's take a look at how Inventor's built-in understanding of what units really are, make it easier to make changes. For example, this is a drawing of an assembly that was defined using metric units. Presently, the drawing itself is set up to use metric units. We can, however, go up to the Tools tab, to to Document Settings, and change the dimension standard that we'll work from. In a part model or assembly, we can use the same document settings to change the units the files themselves are working with. In this case, I'll just do something simple, though, and switch to an ANSI standard dimension style and place the dimension on the screen. Now, instead of a metric value, I'm given an inch value…

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