From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2018 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

System options, units, and templates

System options, units, and templates - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2018 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

System options, units, and templates

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to be taking a look at some system options, units and templates. Now, the first thing I want to point out is, we need to be working in a system that we understand. So, if you're using the metric system, you probably want to be in milometers, or kilograms. If you're in America, you probably want to be using inches. Down here, at the bottom right hand corner of the screen, in this, we have a little fly up, so I can choose, meter, kilogram, second, or millimeter, gram, second, or inch, pound, second. So I can easily switch, to a different unit system, very easily, just right there at the bottom of the screen. If you want to get into some more detail, you can click on this little gear icon at the top, under options, in there, we've got the document properties, so we can choose a bunch of different options here, like units. Notice, we can again see those exact same options, so I can switch over here to inch, pound, second, if I wanted to, I can…

Contents