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Edit and manage options

- [Instructor] We're staying in the ConvertingUnits.dwg file, and you might want to consider some other settings that you might need to change when you're converting units as well. So in the previous video, we scaled the rectangle from inches to millimeters using that scale factor of 25.4. We then reset our unit settings to display a decimal set of units, so when we measured anything, it was measuring in decimal and displaying our metric millimeters units that we scaled up to. So what you need to do now is just check some other settings to make sure that everything's consistent. One of those is your annotation scale in your model tab. You'll notice bottom right on the screen here, we've got quarter of an inch to one foot. Now that's not an annotation scale you would use in a metric millimeters drawing. So you would click on the arrow here and select a metric annotation scale, say 1:1, for example. So you've clicked on that, and now that's displaying how it should, but if I click on it…

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