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Changing existing drawing units

Changing existing drawing units

Changing existing drawing units

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Here's my problem. I created a drawing months ago using the wrong units. It's in inches and i want to be in metric. My format is in metric, but when i want to offset a line to a certain length, that's when the unit discreption is noticed. I tried to go to options and change the units from there, but then the text size and arrowhead size are all still in inches. Any solutions?

RE: Changing existing drawing units

try going to drawing properties-detail options then change 'dual dimensions' to 'secondary' and change 'dual secondary units' to mm. this will allow you to dimension inch parts in metric

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