Had Another Go

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

The Part drawings and the Measure tool were all in inches. The Drawings were defaulting to metric. Yes – I was using the menu opened by “File”.

I had to edit the Part quite heavily when I corrected what had originally been my mistake reading the original drawing, because moving the hole also altered the outline (optionally perhaps, but it seemed better to do that at the same time).

Only, I had to do this twice because I mis-read or miscalculated the change.

I knew editing the Part would edit the assembly as well but it didn’t appear to change the drawing and I didn’t know about the “Re-project” move.  At this stage the drawing’s purpose was for ensuring I had placed the holes in the brackets correctly. I can add the other dimensions later.

[David JuppParticipant @davidjupp51506]

As mentioned previously – the units for a 2D drawing are independent of the units for the model it documents.

You can design in inches, then have the drawing in mm – the actual size reported will be consistent.

You can change the units in the drawing at will.

Re-project should be offered automatically if there has been a change in the model, that has been saved.  The only thing I’m aware of that can mess this up is if you leave drawing file open whilst making edits to part or assembly.

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