Catia V5 Imperial part in Metric drawing

[kbeake]

Good day all. I'm having issues with bringing imperial parts (nuts, bolts, washers) and getting the correct measurement on the specifications. I'm a bit new to Catia (SolidWorks transfer) and was wondering if anyone had a tip or knew the order of operations for completing this task.

Thank you in advance,

Keith

 

[jackk]

Keith,

When working with different measuring systems, there are two things you need to do with CATIA V5:

1. Working Units: Go to Tools + Options + General + Parameters and Measure and go to the Units page. Choose LENGTH and then choose INCH or MILLIMETER, or whatever unit you want to work with. Change other units (Area, Volume, etc.) to match. This will effect all numeric values you either type-in as well as Measure. But this does not effect dimensions on drawings.

2. Dimenisons: Open (or start) a drawing, and go to File + Page Setup and choose a drafting standard. Hopefully your company has added their won Standard based on their drafting practices. If not, the ISO standard will produce MM dimensions, and the ANSI standard will produce INCH dimensions. When creating or editing dimensions, make sure you use a dimension style that corresponds to your units; NUM.DIMM (numeric dimension, decimal point, decimal INCH units), or NUM,DIMM are commonly used.