Dimensioning Metric Drawing in Inventor 2015

[rickduley]

I have created a part in metric (file attached).  Obviously, I would like its drawing to be dimensioned in metric.  Try as I might, all I can create is a drawing dimensioned in Imperial (file attached).  Neither of my textbooks is any help (they were written by people who work in Imperial  ).  

Would someone please enlighten me as to the steps I must take to get a metric-dimensioned drawing?

Thanks

[mrattray]

Everything you need is in the styles manager. Go to the dimensions node and create a dimension style that suites your needs. There should be plenty of information about this in the help files.

[johnsonshiue]

There are a few ways to do it. Here are some ideas to consider.

1) I bet you install Inventor using English standard and all your default Standard templates are English based. You can easily swap Standard templates by going to Tools -> Application Options -> File -> Configure Default Template.

2) If the drawig is already English based, you can go to Manage -> Styles Editor and set default standard to Metric.

3) Or you can recreate the drawing via Metric template.

Thanks!

[Paul-Mason · Accepted solution]

Click on the create new file icon

When you see

Click on METRIC and you'll see somthing like :-

This WILL NOT look exactly the same as yours as a) I'm using 2014 and b) I deleted some of the out of the box templates as I don't use them. Any how click on thew appropriate metric template now if it has been set up right it should already have metric units set as the default

the other way is to add the template path to you project file like this :- expand older option select Templates and add \metric\ at the end from adding this until either changing or starting a new project the metric template will be used by default.

[Vagulus]

I never did thank you guys, but - better late than never.

Thanks, Guys.