On a daily basis I work with two different types of drawings; machining and fabrication. The machine shop prefers dimensions in decimal inches, and the fab shop only understands fractional inches. Is there any way to set up the styles/standards/templates to allow me to pick out which type of drawing I am creating and have Inventor use the correct object defaults for the dimensions?
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I think your option #2 only works if you aren't using a global style library. There has been a feature request for a long time to allow this type of functionality but I don't believe its doable now with a style library.. You need to use local styles.. I could be wrong and I actually hope so because I've been doing #1 for a long time and its an extra step.
CadUser46 is (I think) referring to selecting the dimensions on the drawing and using the Annotate->Format->Style drop down. If you have multiple dimension styles set up they will be listed there and can be applied. The unfortunate part is that this is an override option; only dimensions that are selected will be changed. The drop down doesn't actually populate until you select something.
Setting up two drawing templates, one referencing a wach standard worked for me. I had not played with creating a second style for the object defaults; that was the key. Thanks for the responses.