{"id":22833,"date":"2021-09-23T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckonnect.in\/solidworks\/?p=22833"},"modified":"2022-04-21T12:13:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T06:43:35","slug":"how-to-change-units-in-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckonnect.in\/solidworks\/how-to-change-units-in-solidworks\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Units in SOLIDWORKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Every Design model created has a unit system and SOLIDWORKS provides various flexible ways to Change Units in SOLIDWORKS either during Design stage or after.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">Let us have a look at the unit systems available and how these can be modified for a single document or in a document template. Each SOLIDWORKS template file has its own unit system. If a user intends to design in millimeters, their part, assembly and drawing templates should be set to use millimeters. It is sometimes required to change the unit system of a particular file.<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">The 3 different ways to Change the units in SOLIDWORKS<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\"><b>1. SOLIDWORKS Bottom Right Hand Corner Window:<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">The easiest and straight forward way to check\/change the units in SOLIDWORKS.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">Launch SOLIDWORKS&gt; Bottom Right Hand Corner&gt;Units<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 20px;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/ckonnect.in\/solidworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/pic1-1.jpg\" alt=\"how to change units in solidworks\" width=\"552\" height=\"263\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">Any existing dimension in model will be automatically converted to the Selected New units and the actual dimension will be unchanged. Ex \u2013 0.5 Mtr will be converted to 500 mm.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\"><b>2.SOLIDWORKS Quick Access Bar:<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">Another way of changing the unit system in SOLIDWORKS as shown below.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">Launch SOLIDWORKS&gt;Options&gt;Document Properties&gt;Units<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/ckonnect.in\/solidworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/pic2.jpg\" alt=\"change units in solidworks\" width=\"609\" height=\"542\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\"><b>3.SOLIDWORKS Dimension Dialogue Box<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">SOLIDWORKS allows the input of any unit type when inputting a dimension, irrelevant of the document unit system. In some cases dimension may change in the model so use the drop down in the modify dimension dialogue box and change the units.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">Launch SOLIDWORKS&gt;Dimension dialogue box&gt;Modify&gt;Units<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/ckonnect.in\/solidworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/pic3.jpg\" alt=\"solidworks change default units\" width=\"467\" height=\"319\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">The Best Practice is to Set the default unit systems in Templates and save them as default for creating new part, drawing, and assembly documents which ensures all the New doc\/Design file created will have units as per Template selected.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">The default templates will also be useful during operations where SOLIDWORKS application creates a new document without prompting you for a template during instances such as importing file from another application, creating derived\/mirrored part etc.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 50px;\">For more info, Kindly reach out to <a href=\"mailto:support@ckonnect.in\"> support@ckonnect.in<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Design model created has a unit system and SOLIDWORKS provides various flexible ways to Change Units in SOLIDWORKS either during Design stage or after. 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