Setting Default Standards and Units in Inventor 2013

In all previous versions of Inventor you needed to customise the installation to change the default Standards and Units for Inventor from ANSI and Inches to ISO and mm.

However in the new release (2013) this option is NOT included in the installation customisation, you set this upon starting the software. To change these settings in 2013, start the software for the first time and you will see the splash screen below, select Configure Default Template.

You will then see the Configure Default Template dialogue where you can change to Millimeters and ISO, or whichever Standard and Units suits you best.

Note: If you have turned the splash screen off, you can also access these settings in Tools TAB on Ribbon > Application Options > File TAB > Configure Default Template.