From the course: Revit Templates: System Settings
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Working with imperial vs. metric units - Revit LT Tutorial
From the course: Revit Templates: System Settings
Working with imperial vs. metric units
- In this movie, we're going to look at issues regarding units in your Revit projects. I have actually two project files open onscreen, I have Units Imperial on the left and I have Units Metric on the right, and both of them contain a simple wall and door, just for conversation purposes. 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 see the Units setting, we go to the Manage tab. I go over here to Manage, and I click on the Project Units command, shortcut for that is u+m, that will take me to the Project Units dialog. 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 different disciplines. Currently, I'm in the Common…
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