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English Length Units Graph

G20 G-code

G20 means “all moves starting now have their units specified in inches (imperial units).”

G20’s evil twin is G21, which means “all moves starting now have their units specified in millimeters (metric units),” which is the default when Smoothie starts.

An inch is 25.4 millimeters.

Format

The command is used as such:

G20

Which means: units are now imperial until another G-code changes it (modal command).

Parameters

No parameters.

Further reading

These resources are used as references for Gcode: