Dimension units in drawings

Hello All,

Just finishing my first project in Solidworks and I've got a
ridiculously basic question. In the drawing views, when I dimension
the parts I do not get a unit mark after the dimension value (ie 2.875,
not 2.875"). Where is the option to turn on unit marks?

Thanks!
Gareth Conner

 

We just put a note in the drawing border, something along the lines of
'All dimensions in millimetres unless otherwise stated'

 

What he is saying is that there is no option to turn on/off unit marks.
You will have to add them manually, with the exception of feet/inch
usage.

I would bet if you look at the document options for the drawing and
looked under units, they are set to decimal. If they are in fact set
to fraction, then the measurment is not exactly equivalent to a
fraction. In this case you can turn on the option to round to the
nearest fraction.

 

Yes, exactly. I'm stunned that there's no way to add unit marks for
decimal inches automatically.

Thanks for the response, I'll stop looking for the option if it doesn't
exist!

Best regards,
Gareth Conner

 

The units, UOS, should be specified in the title block, as should
be the projection angles.

You would really not someone to confuse ""' with 11 or take up
all that valuable annotation space with useless repetitive rubbish.

An exception might be in the case of dimensioning in feet, yards,
fractional inches, etc.