If you want to have dual dimensioning in your drawing, it's easy. First, select the Dimension/Style to open the Dimension Styles dialog box. Now, click Annotation to access the Primary and Alternate Units options. Normally, when you enable the Alternate Units option, you'll notice that the dimension text format takes up quite a bit of space, often making it difficult to get the text to fit between the extension lines. You can easily format the dual dimension so that the English dimensions are stacked over the metric dimensions as follows: 

1.000 [25.4]

To do this, first enable the Alternate Units for metric units. In the Primary Units section of the Annotation dialog box, enter the following text in the Suffix text box: \P

Make sure that you use a capital P; otherwise, your text will look like the following: 1.0000p[25.4]

This tip helps you fit text between the dimension lines more easily.

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