I am working on a project in D-CAM right now, and, all of the timbers are nominal sizes in inches. The frame layout is in meters. The conversion back and forth is ending up in little round-offs, which are annoying. And, switching the units back and forth after each timber is tedious at best.
Is there someway to work in two units?
Joe
It is not possible to work in two units. How should that work? The program must know the unit you are using it cannot read that in your mind. :lol:
I've worked in some other softwares (ok, only one that I can think of right now), that allows you to enter units along with the number. You can enter 3'3" or 1m, and, it recognizes the format difference.
Just being hopeful, I suppose!
Thanks,
Joe
Hi Joe,
Sometimes when I work in metric and have timbers in inches I enter the inch (5.5) and activate the calculator by clicking multiply and enter times 0.0254. It is exact and fast without switching back and forth.
Wil
Thanks for the tip.
I've added a toolbar button for units, which has quickened things up a bit too.
Much obliged,
Joe
Hi Joe,
I understand your problem. But if we would allow different units each user must enter the unit behind each entered number. This would need a lot of time and our users are used to work very fast. So at the moment I do not think that we will do something with the units.
With the tips I've gotten here and from others, the process has quickened up enough that the entering the units doesn't slow me down anymore.
My lack of ability to think in two units is another story...
Joe
