topic Re: drawing units in 3D Part & Assembly Design

drawing units

AK_10785316 — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:09:21 GMT

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.

Re: drawing units

tbraxton — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:19:07 GMT

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

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Re: drawing units

BenLoosli — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:20:48 GMT

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

Re: drawing units

AK_10785316 — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:35:08 GMT

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.

Re: drawing units

tbraxton — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:40:58 GMT

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)

Re: drawing units

AK_10785316 — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:49:56 GMT

thank you all for the responses.

I have a drawing template set to mm and a .dtl file set to mm but it still shows the inch dimension of the model.

The .prt is set to inch.

If I change the .prt to mm then the drawing shows the dimension mm.

If I change the .prt back to inch the drawing updates to show the inch dimension.

the drawing is not converting the model's inch dimension to mm.

Re: drawing units

GV_SVT — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:48:51 GMT

Hi AK,

I'm having this same issue. It seems the only thing that DRAWING_UNITS does is set the units for the size of the annotations in the drawing instead of being related to the units of the dimensions. Maybe there's more to it.

Have you found a solution to your problem?

Thanks

Re: drawing units

kdirth — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:05:09 GMT

Try File>Prepare>Drawing Properties>Detail Options:

dual_secondary_units mm

dual_dimensioning secondary