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October 3, 2023
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drawing units

  • October 3, 2023
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how do I set the units of a drawing to display mm regardless of the units set in a part model.

i.e. Part model is in inch units but I want the drawing to display in mm.

 

 

 

 

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tbraxton
tbraxton22-Sapphire II
22-Sapphire II
October 3, 2023

Check out these threads on the subject (found using search term dual dimension):

 

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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
October 3, 2023

Create your drawing template in the units that you want for your drawing dimensions.

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AK_107853161-VisitorAuthor
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October 3, 2023

the drawing template has the units set to mm and the model has the units has the units set to inch.

the dimensions in the drawing show in inch even though the drawing template is set to mm.

 

tbraxton
tbraxton22-Sapphire II
22-Sapphire II
October 3, 2023

There are, depending of what you want, different ways to manage units in a drawing.

A- For new drawings:
1) If you don’t use templates:
  You should complete two files:
  In CONFIG.PRO:
  Set DRAWING_SETUP_FILE to the location of PRODETAIL.DTL
        (eg: drawing_setup_file c:\proeconfig\prodetail.dtl)
  Then complete PRODETAIL.DTL with:
  DRAWING_UNITS   mm

 

2) If you use Templates:
  Edit each Template, go to FILE/PREPARE/DRAWING PROPERTIES, click CHANGE on line "Detail options" and set the line DRAWING UNITS to: "DRAWING_UNITS mm" then save your Template.

 

B- For existing drawings:
  Do the same as for Template files, for each ones.

 

(Creo reads PRODETAIL.DTL once when creating a drawing, then copy all options in the drawing. Hence none of PRODETAIL modification will affect already created drawings)

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