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Inventor understands many different measurement units.

A - answer Do you need to make a hole for a 3/4" pipe in your metric model, bend a sheetmetal by 0.1 radians, or chamfer an edge by 5 microns? The Inventor dimension editor supports all standard types of measurement units and converts them automatically as needed.

The default units (for metric environments) are millimeters, but you can set different default units for the current document - e.g. inches - see the ribbon Tools > Options > Document settings > Units.

But Inventor understands many more units. Dimension values in other units can be used in any expression - just add the respective suffix to the value. A special case is the unit "ul" (unitless), which can be used e.g. in multiplication and division expressions (10 mm / 2 ul = 5 mm).

Dimension - units

Inventor understands e.g. these well-known (SI) and less-known measurement units and prefixes - try yourself:

Metric:

  • m - meter
  • mm - millimeter
  • cm - centimeter
  • dm - decimeter
  • km - kilometer
  • dam - dekameter (1E+1)
  • hm - hektometer (1E+2)
  • Mm - megameter (don't confuse with "mm"!)
  • Gm - gigameter (1E+9)
  • Tm - terrameter (1E+12)
  • Pm - petameter (1E+15)
  • Em - exameter (1E+18)
  • am - attometer (1E-18)
  • fm - femtometer (1E-15)
  • pm - picometer (1E-12)
  • nm - nanometer (1E-9)
  • microm - micrometer (1E-6)
  • micron - micron

Imperial:

  • in - inch
  • ft - foot/feet
  • yd - yard
  • mile - mile
  • cin - centiinch (1E-2)
  • microin - microinch (1E-6)
  • nin - nanoinch (1E-9)
  • pin - picoinch (1E-12)
  • kin - kiloinch (1E+3)
  • Min - megainch (1E+6)
  • Gin - gigainch (1E+9)
  • Gft - gigafoot (1E+9)
  • Gyd - gigayard (1E+9)

Angles:

  • deg - degree
  • grd - grad (100)
  • rad - radian

Online conveter of other physical units is available on Units converter.

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See also:
Tip 13692:What is the precision in Revit?
Tip 13426:Use of alternative units for arithmetic in dimensions (without square brackets).
Tip 13228:DWG or DXF file exported to/from Fusion 360 has incorrect size (scale, 10x larger/smaller).
Tip 13013:Converting a 3D mesh to a 3D solid in Fusion 360.
Tip 12777:Arithmetic and trigonometric functions available in Revit expressions.


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