Units and number formats

Project units

File › Project units…, or the Units menu in the status bar, sets how lengths are shown and typed in this project:

• Metric: millimetres, centimetres or metres, with the number of decimals;
• Imperial: feet and fractional inches, decimal feet, or inches, with the rounding.

A preview shows the result. Every field, readout, dimension, tag, schedule and sheet follows at once. The choice is saved with the project and can be undone.

Number formats

Each kind of annotation can write its numbers its own way: dimensions, level heads, spot levels, tags and schedules. The status bar's Units menu lists each kind with a sample of how it writes now; click one, or Number formats…, to open the Number formats window. Project comes first, then each kind.

For a kind, every setting starts as Use the project's, and can be set on its own:

Looks like shows a sample as you change them. Reset to the project's puts every field back. The number formats are kept in the style pack, so a set of drawing standards carries them.

A single dimension can override its kind's format in Properties. See Dimensions.

Typing lengths

Any length field takes a number in the project's units, or any unit written out:

In a feet-and-inches project, 3 6 reads as 3′-6″ and 42" as 3′-6″.