Controlling dimension units

You can determine the appearance and format of the primary and alternate dimension units. The image tile on the right side of the Dimension Settings dialog box shows the appearance of the dimensions based on the current dimension style settings.

Round off distance set to .01 (original dimension before rounding).

Round off distance set to 0.25.

Round off distance set to 1.0.

To round off dimensions

Do one of the following:

Choose Settings > Dimension Settings.
On the Settings toolbar, click the Dimension Settings tool ().
Type setdim and then press Enter.

Click the Units tab.
In the Round Linear Dimensions field, type or select the nearest value to which you want to round off dimensions.
Click OK.

NOTE You can also specify units for linear dimensions using the DIMLUNIT system variable. You can specify fraction formats using the DIMFRAC system variable.

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