Create a new Dimension Style in AutoCAD 2012

Quite often you may receive an AutoCAD drawing that has been drawn in one unit but you may wish to annotate or dimension in alternative units. For example, suppose you receive a drawing drawn in millimetres and you want to dimension that drawing in metres.

This paper describes how you can create a new Dimension Style in AutoCAD to display dimensions in metres when original drawing units are millimetres.

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