Inventor "default" document settings

[Anonymous]

My company receives a lot of non-Inventor 3D files from our customers; most of what we deal with on a day-to-day basis is imported files from other software packages (mainly step and iges). Is there any way to set a default document setting so that ANY 3D file imported is automatically set to "inch" length, "degree" angle, and "lbmass" mass? Almost always the mass is in kg and occasionally the angle is in radians, which requires extra steps in each model opened to convert these fields. When dealing with many files daily, it gets to be a lot of extra work. 

Somewhat related and not as important, is there any way to mass update a large group of ipt files to convert the document settings, ideally without having to open each one in Inventor?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Here is a rule that you could create as an external rule and run in any document to update the document settings to what you have specified:

Dim oDoc As Document
oDoc = ThisDoc.Document

'set length units to Inch for the active document
oDoc.unitsofmeasure.LengthUnits = 11272

'set angle units to Degree for the active document
oDoc.unitsofmeasure.AngleUnits = 11279

'set mass units to LbMass for the active document
oDoc.unitsofmeasure.MassUnits = 11286

[Anonymous]

Sorry should have said this is an external iLogic rule, not sure if you are familiar with iLogic?

[Anonymous]

I have not used iLogic but if it's going to make life easier, it'd probably be worth the effort to learn how to use it. Thanks for the advice!