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Set drawing units

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Set drawing units

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- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now in our AutoCAD Essentials course. And we're going to be diving a bit deeper now into managing your units and some of those unit options in your AutoCAD drawings. We've got a new file for you. It's called ManagingFiles.dwg, and you can see it's a floor plan, you can see the desks, the chairs, the doors, the windows etc. Now obviously, we're not going to be doing much by way of changing that drawing, but what we're going to be looking at is the units in the drawing. Now the units themselves can be accessed from the application menu, if you want to, and go to Drawing Utilities. But there's actually a really quick way. You just type the word units, simple as that. And you can see on the suggestion menu there on the dynamic input, there's the units at the top of the list there. So you just select units at the top of the list, and it will bring up the Drawing Units dialogue box. Now drawing units are simply a way of displaying the units in…

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