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Drawing generated in English Units, not settings in Metric.

leonard_kulas
leonard_kulas Member Posts: 1 ✭
in Community Support
When I create a drawing for a part I have my general and drawing settings units set to metric. Yet when I create a drawing it uses english units. How do I fix this?
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  • andrew_troup
    andrew_troup Member, Mentor Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You need to specify this in the template. I'm pretty sure there is now (only since last week's updates), the ability to specify metric units for ANSI templates, or vice versa. Check out the "New in Onshape" category, or look at the very top post in the "All Categories" view (see list at right) of the discussion forum.
  • andrew_troup
    andrew_troup Member, Mentor Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yup, it's item 6: Custom drawing templates - Configurable drawing templates upon drawing creation
  • oleksandr_masliuchenko
    oleksandr_masliuchenko Member Posts: 5 ✭
    I have same issue. My project units is mm,
    I created a drawing with custom template, ISO paper size, mm as units.

    But exported dxf is opened in other apps (Solidworks, CorelDraw) as English/inches. I inspected saved file and indeed it has some fields (MEASUREMENT, LUNITS) set to inches

    How do I correctly save DXF as metric units? 
  • viru
    viru Member, Developers Posts: 619 ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2016
    leonard_kulas  and  @oleksandr_masliuchenko , Kindly refer below video steps then you can change unit in drawing as per your requirement.




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