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WCrihfield
in reply to: amillsLD4X8

Hi @amillsLD4X8.  Centimeters are Inventor's default length units (database units) used for everything behind the scenes in all their code.  Any raw numbers in your code that are supposed to represent length measurements that have units, will be automatically interpreted as representing centimeters.  It has always been this way, and will likely never change.  You can just expect this behavior and use simple math to convert, or you can use the built-in units converter function (Document.UnitsOfMeasure.ConvertUnits).  Most of the values you get back from stuff in Inventor are also in 'database units', there are different default units for different types of measurements (angle, mass, time, etc).  There are a few situations where you will get 'document' units, but it would be difficult to list them all here.

Wesley Crihfield

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