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System options, units, and templates

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System options, units, and templates

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- [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 millimeters 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, you notice we have this 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 define how…

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