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CICorey Ireland29/11/2011

Hi everyone,

I'm currently editing some drawings (.SLDDWR) that someone else did, and every drawing has the mass of the part in the title block. However the masses are all in grams, and in some cases there are many decimal places. For example, I've got one part that weighs 781.326 grams.

The weight is in a custom title block, but it wasn't entered manually because nobody in their right mind would think it's worth noting a 100 kg part's weight down to the milligram. However, I cannot find where this mass and its properties are referenced.

I would like to change these all to kilograms with only one decimal place, but I don't want to go through and manually change every number by moving the decimal around. Furthermore, if I did that it would no longer automatically update.

There are a few things I've tried, including changing the unit properties in both the drawing and the part file, but this hasn't been successful.

What I'm looking for is a button or menu that automatically changes the noted weight to kg with fewer decimals, and Options -> Document Properties -> Units isn't it.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for your help.