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Changing dimension precision

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Changing dimension precision

- On the screen, you see a drawing I created for this exercise, called Engine Block Precision.idw. It's essentially a drawing that finishes where we were at the end of the last movie. We've gone ahead and added some basic dimensions to this drawing. And if we zoom in, we can look at the view in the upper-left corner, and you can see these dimensions only have two decimal points of precision. 1.20 and .85. Now if you're creating manufacturing drawings, you're probably going to wanna go out to 3, or even 4 decimals. So let's look at how we can change the precision of these dimensions. We have a few different options. If we start by right-clicking on the 1.20, you'll notice that we have a Precision option in the right-click menu that allows us to change our precision. Right now, because we're at 2 decimal points, we're at 2.12. By selecting 3.123, we get 3 decimals of precision. Now, there's another place you can change it for the single-dimension as well, and that is if you right-click…

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