Enable "Model" Units Of Measure in Drawings

[Brad.Anstey]

Currently users are able to "Model" items using a number of different linear "Units of Measure" -  Centimetre, Millimetre, Metre, Inch & Foot.

However, when entering the "Drawing" workspace, for the same "design", Fusion 360 currently limits the Units of Measure to either "Inches" or "Millimetres".

This is despite the User's default "Preference" settings (Preferences -> General -> Drawing) displaying that "Drawings" shall "Inherit From Design" the unit of measure of the item/design as it appears in the modelling (and related design) workspaces.

When a User moves from the Modelling workspace into the Drawing workspace, a dialog box appears in which to establish the drawing environment (standard, UOM, paper size etc). However, the only "Units of Measure" available are "Inches" or "Millimetres" - regardless of what the model uses.

This process is inconsistent with that which is defined in the User's "Preferences", and is a cumbersome and unwieldy programming implementation, which is particularly limiting to Users wanting to generate drawings where their models use "other available" units of measure (eg. feet, metres etc), and yet they are unable use these same units of measure in their drawings.

Handing over a drawing, which was modelled in metres or feet, and the output in that drawing appears as inches or millimetres, and then asking the reader to convert the scale back to that which was modelled, is somewhat embarrassing! 

Hoping this limitation can be rectified quickly.

Thanks in advance.

[richardX98XU]

This is so frustrating to be able to make these beautiful drawings and not be able to draw in the dimensions set up by user preference. Smh

[yanouk73]

I am looking at the units in drawing, we can read 10 differents request, all of these ideas should be combine in one, the votes are actually spreaded and it look like these ideas are not so much prioritary, but all the request combine will show a totally different situation, units in drawing is not working well and it need a big design fix, we should also be able to clone a drawing to make a different unit version of the same drawing instead off having to restart from zero when the units are not well set when you creat the drawing. The units need to be made from a list mm/m/cm/in/feet that you can change when you want after all.

Yan