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
it's going to be much simpler because you don't have all that fractions and things.
You don't use your fractions in decimal.
It's just a case of am I working in meters, millimeters centimeters or what?
So precision, let's go with two points.
Okay.
And I'm going to change this to millimeters and.
So let me delete these.
So now we're working in millimeters.
Okay, so I can say 1000mm.
And that will give us.
So that's a meter.
Thousand millimeters.
And if I go to units again, I'm going to change to architectural.
You say if we try to okay it, it will say for use with architectural engineering, linear units, insert
units should be set to inches because it's just irrelevant.
So it makes it a lot easier if for the people who are metric really you only have to set this insertion
scale and that's important because someone else might want to insert something in your drawing.
Okay.
So it's a lot simpler for those guys working in metric.
And really all you need to worry about is kind of a precision you want to set, which is easy to change
and you can change it on your dimensions.
We'll do that later.
We'll purposely do it in one of these larger settings so we can show how you change your dimensions
to show that angle.
Most people tend to use decimal degrees, I would say.
Most places I have worked are I'm struggling to remember anywhere where I've used anything other than
that.
If I was to do.
Let's.
So that's what you want as a dimension you'd want it to measure in degrees at 27 degrees.
Okay.
Degrees minutes and seconds radians, all that.
I honestly can't remember ever using it, but if if you need to, this is where you would change that.
Okay.
And this can be changed back.
But what's important to remember is to AutoCAD.
They're all just units.
It's just a way of how it presents the information to you when you change it in the box.
AutoCAD really is just a unit.
So that is a brief overview of units and how to change them.
Now, one thing I will say, if you do a course and it's in millimeters, but you're used to working
in feet and inches, or maybe you do one of these courses and it's in feet and inches and you're used
to working in millimeters.
Just go along with it.
It's it's good practice to learn to use different measurements, systems, but also if you really want
to do it in inches, it's it's easy enough to convert it as well.
So if someone asks for 5000mm, just do a conversion, just Google inches to millimeters conversion
or millimeters to inches.
And you can always follow along these courses in your chosen system of measurement.
Certainly my course is everything's open.
Everything I do is an example.
You can always draw things a bit different and I encourage people actually to mess around with the examples
and come up with your own building layouts.
You don't have to put walls or wings or anything.
I draw where I put it.
You can all experiment.
You can change the units to whatever you feel comfortable, whether it's feet and inches, millimeters,
miles, yards, chains or any of these obscure things.
Just feel free working that we're not building anything here.
Nothing's going to go out to site.
No one's going to care if you accidentally do your building and it's 600 yards long instead of being
only six meters, no one cares.
Nothing's getting built.
As long as you're learning the software and you know how this stuff works, that's the main thing.
Okay, so whatever you feel comfortable with just working that, and at least now you know how to change
between the two or between.
Many systems, should I say.
So that's units.
Hopefully that made sense.
It's again, it's one of those things in AutoCAD where it might not make sense when you just learn it,
but by the time you get to the end of your course, it will you'll just it will become because you're
putting it into practice.
That's the best way of learning.
And once you start putting it into practice, it will make a lot more sense.
So if you're only 80% there, don't worry.
Continue with the course if it's completely bewildered you.
Watch the video again.
Feel free to send me a message if you need more clarification, but if it's kind of bad, just move
on with the course and it'll all make sense as you start using it.