- We're opening up another drawing now
in this particular video
and the drawing is called Units-Imperial.dwg.
So it's going to be a comparison against the drawing
that we used in the previous video,
where we talked about metric units.
So in this unit-imperial drawing, if you download it
from the library to follow along with the video,
you can see as, as you open it in the model tab
that the dimensions are very different.
They are now in feet and inches
and using an imperial unit setting.
Now what's really important here is again,
everything has been drawn full size but to feet and inches.
So again, we'll go through that particular workflow.
We'll zoom in on the same door down here.
So there's the door there
and I'm just rolling up and down on the wheel, by the way,
to get to this doorway to zoom in.
So on the home tab, on the ribbon, again, I'll go
to the utilities panel and you can see there
when I click on measure like so I've got distance there.
And what I'll do is I'll use the same endpoint click there,
click there, and you see the distance
is very different this time,
it's now three feet 9 1/2 inches.
That's because this particular drawing
has been drawn in feet and inches
using an imperial unit setting.
I'll just hit Escape a couple of times
to come out of the measure tool,
double click on the wheel to zoom extends.
Now, if I type units in this particular drawing
and press Enter, you'll see that the unit settings
are very, very different.
And you can see that we're using for length
architectural to a precision of 1/16th of an inch.
Decimal degrees, they've just stuck with decimal degrees
and gone for a precision of zero there.
You might want to up that a little bit.
Maybe take that up to two or three decimal places.
Like I said, when we talked about units
it's always good to have some decimal places there
for your decimal degrees.
The insertion scale this time though, is correct.
Any units coming into this drawing
that are on a separate object that you're bringing in.
So you're bringing in content like a block,
for example, you want that set to inches
because it's an inches drawing.
And everything has been drawn using these drawing units
to make sure that this drawing is using imperial units.
And again, clockwise is unchecked direction
will be east as you can see with the zero.
So I can okay that and I can okay the drawing units.
So you can see how two drawings that are
basically exactly the same in look and feel
are measured very differently.
As we go through this course,
I will try and make sure that the units
are kept generic as possible.
I will mention obviously metric millimeters a bit
because I'm from the UK
and in the UK we do use metric millimeters.
What I'll try and do though, is make sure that
if any comparisons need to be made to imperial units,
I'll explain why and where those imperial units are used.
But as you can see two very, very similar drawings
but both using very different unit settings.