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New Part in Assembly, wrong unit system

New Part in Assembly, wrong unit system

New Part in Assembly, wrong unit system

(OP)
I have set units to IPS, and dim style to ANSI, but when I make a new part in an assembly, the units switch to metric.

Anybody else experience this? The dialog boxes are still in inches but if I draw a dimension, it's all mm. Very strange.

RE: New Part in Assembly, wrong unit system

Is your part a virtual part in your assembly, or a standalone part that is incontext of your assembly?  If the latter, your part template needs to be set to IPS too.

-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Pretty good with SolidWorks

RE: New Part in Assembly, wrong unit system

To add to Chris's advice, if you go to Tools->Options, System Options tab, Default Templates category you will see the default templates for part/assembly/drawing.  These are the templates that are used whenever SW decides not to ask you what template it should use.  I believe creating a part inside an assembly is one of those instances.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: New Part in Assembly, wrong unit system

To add further...

The system of units is a property of each individual document, not a system property.  For a new document (part, assembly, drawing) the properties are inherited from the template used when the document is created.  There are different templates for parts, assemblies and drawings, and you can have different templates within a document type.  For instance, we have a drawing template for each paper size that we use.

Eric

RE: New Part in Assembly, wrong unit system

(OP)
Thanks everyone, I thought I had carefully set up all the templates to use IPS units but I hadn't changed the default templates. It was bizarre to be working on a model and have the unit system suddenly switch.  

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