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Metric/English Conversion on the Fly

swcalvert

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I'm posting this, again, in this forum for hopefully more people to see. To me, this should already be there.



Is it possible to convert to metric values on the fly? I want to enter, in a family table or anywhere else, 'mm(10)' in a length row or as a value and have it converted to 10mm. The same would hole true for going the other direction.



What are you users doing now when this comes up?



Steve C
 
I think what Steve is looking for is something like the functionallity SolidWorks has had for years where you type in a string like 10mm and it automaticly converts the number to milimeters (or if you're in metric you can type in 5in and it will interprete it as 5 inches). It's pretty slick if you're in a world where you are forced to switch back and forth.



I'm still looking for a way to have both metric and english fasteners in the hole table. Anyone pull that off?



Bernie Hayden

XKL LLC
 
I don't think it is possible in a family table, have never tried it, but you can create a parameter and use that parameter to do your conversion. Example would be I had a drawing in inches and wanted my new drawing to be in mm. I would create a parameter C which would equal 25.4 and do the input by utilizing C. Just as easy to type 25.4 :). 0.03937 is a little more feasible.
 

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