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So if we go back now and I'm going to go to decimal if you're if you're working in metric, okay, let's

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it's going to be much simpler because you don't have all that fractions and things.

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You don't use your fractions in decimal.

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It's just a case of am I working in meters, millimeters centimeters or what?

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So precision, let's go with two points.

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And I'm going to change this to millimeters and.

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So let me delete these.

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So now we're working in millimeters.

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Okay, so I can say 1000mm.

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And that will give us.

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So that's a meter.

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Thousand millimeters.

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And if I go to units again, I'm going to change to architectural.

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You say if we try to okay it, it will say for use with architectural engineering, linear units, insert

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units should be set to inches because it's just irrelevant.

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So it makes it a lot easier if for the people who are metric really you only have to set this insertion

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scale and that's important because someone else might want to insert something in your drawing.

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So it's a lot simpler for those guys working in metric.

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And really all you need to worry about is kind of a precision you want to set, which is easy to change

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and you can change it on your dimensions.

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We'll do that later.

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We'll purposely do it in one of these larger settings so we can show how you change your dimensions

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to show that angle.

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Most people tend to use decimal degrees, I would say.

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If I was to do.

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So that's what you want as a dimension you'd want it to measure in degrees at 27 degrees.

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Degrees minutes and seconds radians, all that.

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I honestly can't remember ever using it, but if if you need to, this is where you would change that.

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And this can be changed back.

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But what's important to remember is to AutoCAD.

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They're all just units.

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It's just a way of how it presents the information to you when you change it in the box.

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AutoCAD really is just a unit.

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So that is a brief overview of units and how to change them.

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Now, one thing I will say, if you do a course and it's in millimeters, but you're used to working

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in feet and inches, or maybe you do one of these courses and it's in feet and inches and you're used

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to working in millimeters.

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Just go along with it.

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It's it's good practice to learn to use different measurements, systems, but also if you really want

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to do it in inches, it's it's easy enough to convert it as well.

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So if someone asks for 5000mm, just do a conversion, just Google inches to millimeters conversion

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or millimeters to inches.

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And you can always follow along these courses in your chosen system of measurement.

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Certainly my course is everything's open.

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Everything I do is an example.

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You can always draw things a bit different and I encourage people actually to mess around with the examples

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and come up with your own building layouts.

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You don't have to put walls or wings or anything.

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I draw where I put it.

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You can all experiment.

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You can change the units to whatever you feel comfortable, whether it's feet and inches, millimeters,

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miles, yards, chains or any of these obscure things.

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Just feel free working that we're not building anything here.

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Nothing's going to go out to site.

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No one's going to care if you accidentally do your building and it's 600 yards long instead of being

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only six meters, no one cares.

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Nothing's getting built.

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As long as you're learning the software and you know how this stuff works, that's the main thing.

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Okay, so whatever you feel comfortable with just working that, and at least now you know how to change

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between the two or between.

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Many systems, should I say.

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So that's units.

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Hopefully that made sense.

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It's again, it's one of those things in AutoCAD where it might not make sense when you just learn it,

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but by the time you get to the end of your course, it will you'll just it will become because you're

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putting it into practice.

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That's the best way of learning.

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And once you start putting it into practice, it will make a lot more sense.

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So if you're only 80% there, don't worry.

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Continue with the course if it's completely bewildered you.

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Watch the video again.

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Feel free to send me a message if you need more clarification, but if it's kind of bad, just move

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on with the course and it'll all make sense as you start using it.