'mm' - and now add some dimensions - they'll all be in 'mm'.Īccording to Metric Standards and Specifications and common practice in hand drafting of Architectural Working Drawings, all metric dimensions are shown in millimeters but the symbol (mm) is to be omitted. TIG wrote:Click the dimension-tool icon on the toolbar, and before doing anything else change your dimension-style settings to what units/tolerance/etc you want - e.g. Of course you can do much more that just fix the dimensions when customizing your own templates - title-blocks/borders, standardized text/fonts etc etc. Templates/ folder, so you all sing from the same hymn-sheet. If you have a number of users then you'll need to have a system to coordinate your own standard. ***For example - make a new project using the A3L template and change the dimension-style settings to 'mm'/1mm etc and Save_As_Template naming it perhaps A3Lmm - which automatically goes into C:\Users\TIG\AppData\Roaming\Google\Google SketchUp 8\LayOut\Templates\ A3Lmm.layout - and which will make a new project default to 'mm' dimensions every time that particular template is used. If you make a custom-template*** then you can set the dimension-style in that in this way, so 'mm' become the default units for all new Layout projects. When you next use the dimension-tool it will use these new settings - these will be remembered across sessions too.
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'mm' - and now add some dimensions - they'll all be in 'mm'. Click the dimension-tool icon on the toolbar, and before doing anything else change your dimension-style settings to what units/tolerance/etc you want - e.g.