From the course: Revit Templates: Annotation
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Working with imperial vs. metric units - Revit LT Tutorial
From the course: Revit Templates: Annotation
Working with imperial vs. metric units
- In this movie we're going to look at issues regarding units in your Revit projects. So, I have actually two project files open on screen, I have units imperial on the left, and I have units metric on the right. Both of them contain a simple wall and door just for conversation purposes. So as you can see, the wall on the left-hand side is eight inches thick and the door is three feet wide, and on the right-hand side, the door is 915 millimeters, and the wall is 200 millimeters thick. To change the unit setting, or to see the unit setting, we go to the "Manage" tab. So if I come over here to "Manage," and I click on the "Project Units" command, shortcut for that is UN, that will take me to the project units dialogue. Now, we're going to focus on the length units, but there's actually several different units that you can configure in a project. So you want to consider area, and volume, and all of these different unit measurement systems that you're likely to use. Also, there's…
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