TO SET UNIT OF MEASUREMENT - METRIC/IMPERIAL

Instruction as applicable to Blender Version  3.00 and above.

 In Blender, we can set the dimensions of Rotation, Length, Mass, Time and Temperature.

The main settings we can do is to set Metric or British(Imperial).

Rotation- Degree,Radian

Time -Day, Hour , Minute, Second....

Temperature _Kelvin, Fahrenheit.

Under Metric  we can have: 

Length - Kilometre, Meter, Centimetre ...

Mass -Tonnes, Kilogram, gram ...

Under Imperial  we can have: 

Length - Miles, Feet, Inch ...

Mass -Tonnes, Pound, Ounce ...

To set the Unit, as shown in IMAGE  1 , Click on Scene properties in the Properties panel.

                                                                  IMAGE 1

Then click on Units to get a drop down menu where you can choose  Metric/Imperial and the units under them as shown in IMAGE 2.

       

                                                              IMAGE 2      

                            

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ENABLING MEASUREMENT (DIMENSION)

 

Instruction as applicable to Blender Version  3.00 and above.

To enable display of object dimensions in Blender, we need to follow the following steps.

1. In IMAGE 1,  we see a plane  object. It is in object mode. Change it to edit mode by pressing Tab key. Press  "A" key to select all objects in the 3 D view port.

                                                            IMAGE 1

2. As shown in IMAGE 2, click on overlay drop down button. 

                                                              IMAGE 2

Then as shown in IMAGE 3, under measurement, tick "Edge length".

                                                              IMAGE  3

3. Now the  edge dimensions are displayed as shown in IMAGE 4.

                                                            IMAGE 4

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