SOLIDWORKS Units

Tech tips, tutorials, and best practices for SOLIDWORKS Units from the Javelin technical team

How to Show Mixed Units in a SOLIDWORKS Weldments Cut List

By Carleigh Amyot, CSWP on January 7, 2026

If you are designing multibody SOLIDWORKS parts with mixed units, both imperial and metric, you need a way to accurately…

By Lemaro Mighty, CSWE on May 22, 2024

Learn how to display units in SOLIDWORKS BOMs using custom file properties and workarounds for equations.

By Rod Mackay on August 25, 2020

SOLIDWORKS Change Units is a common term that is searched for on our blog, so here is a quick tech…

$How to show SOLIDWORKS Equations and Custom Properties as fractions with your model in decimals 9$

By Shawn McEachern on September 27, 2018

Having to work in decimals and show SOLIDWORKS fractions in your drawing can be frustrating when you require the use of…

By Mehdi Rezaei, CSWE on January 18, 2017

The drawings in SOLIDWORKS are usually made using drawing templates which are specifically designed for each company. In the drawing templates,…

By Andrew Lidstone, CSWE on March 28, 2013

One of my favorite enhancements to the SOLIDWORKS interface is a new addition to the Status Bar, the document Unit…