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Drawings using Metric units

Drawings using Metric units - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 2024 Essential Training

Drawings using Metric units

- [Instructor] We've got a different drawing open for you this time. It's called units dash metric dot D W G. And as usual, you can download it from the library to follow along with this particular video. Now we mentioned units earlier with the unit dialogue box, didn't we? Where we were setting all our unit display settings and so on. Now what I want to get across here is the difference between metric units and in the next video we'll talk about imperial units. So you'll notice in this particular drawing, if you look at the dimensions, you can see that the dimensions are all in those metric millimeters that I mentioned earlier. Now what I'd like you to do is zoom in on this top left area here. So get the crosshair sort of over that area and then roll up on the wheel a bit to zoom in like so. And you'll see there's some small rooms with little circular tables in, can you see them there? And you've got some door openings…

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