Drawing Units vs Part Units

I don't know of anything you are missing. Generally you model in whatever units you want, be they inch or metric, etc., and then when it comes to drawing time, you set the global setting to whatever is the most prevalent. Then individually modify any dims that you want to change from the global. To aid in that, look up Dimension Favorites.

WT

Wayne,

I noticed that after altering the drawing properties units to include both decimal and fractions I was getting better results. To top that off if I uncheck using documents precision in the drawing it seems to stick with the model preferences as desired. I'm sure I need to tweek some settings here.

My main objective is that the model tolerences and decimal/fractional precision should always be utilized for documentation. Not everyone examines a drawing file for use in other assemblies. The model should contain all the relevent info.

Thanks for the guidence that led me to investigate many of the options located in the menus. I don't know why you would want to change precision or tolerance to a document that differs from the model, but I guess someone needs that function to incorporate it.

I would say you need yet to set up your units in your drawing templates.

Drawings, parts, and assembly's all function indecently of each other with their own unit settings.

Jay

...indecently...????? I know SW sometimes has issues, but I've never actually seen anything between them that makes me cover my eyes. Gross and disgusting, yes, but indecent, no. :-) (Maybe you meant independently.) :-) :-)

WT

There are advantages to using separate precision in Drawings and in Parts, and you may wish to set up your templates accordingly. I set precision in Drawings to a default 3 decimal places (and fractions to

32), whereas in Parts (and also Assemblies) I set precision to at least 5 decimal places if not 8. The reason for the latter? Two, actually: 1) If I'm designing in fractional equivalents, which I find to be expedient at times, I can see the EXACT value represented in sketches rather than a rounded-off approximation. 2) I may want to Measure and be sure I'm not missing some spurious trailing decimal values out 6 or 7 or 8 places from the decimal point I don't need to change the Options (in the Measure dialog box) to set precision higher each time I measure something. This second point is often of more importance in Assemblies.

I can get both of these advantages without having to change default precision in Drawings by having the precision set separately.

(Just BTW, in the title block of my Drawing template I also set a value for fractional tolerance which will allow me to utilize a different default tolerance simply by changing a dimension to Fractional from Decimal . . . when I'm dealing in fractional equivalents. And that's one reason why sometimes I find it expedient to design in fractional equivalents.)

Mark 'Sporky' Staplet>