Problem with Inch and metric ?
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Hi again. I got problem, Im from metric country, and not familiar with Inch or imperial system.
So if I draw line long 60" and second must be 7'/4 what is that ? is that 7 inch and one quater like 7 1/4 or something else ? and how I can tell SUp to make that line?
I try with 7'4 and not OK is too long, than I use 0,740' and it look OK. but Im not shure if I doin right, because later I must measure that and make blueprint.
and another thing, I use Entity Info and for 60" got 5,000' Is possible to template make this ? I use Engineering - Feet template.
Or just make on metric and later put-correct measure by hand ?
Thank you.
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7'4 (no slash) would be read as "seven feet four inches". You would commonly see it on a plan or blue print written as 7'-4". That would be the same as 88 inches which would be written 88".
.740' would be just less than three quarters of a foot. three quarters of a foot would be 9 inches.
You can change the Units for the model to Decimal feet or Decimal inches or Architectural which would be feet and inches or you could choose Fractional inches. This is set under Units in Model Info.
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Hm there is catch, Ok. thx I get it now
Another thing is, my Hard Disk go to hell 2weeks ago and I than make a new install of SketchUp, but now I got problem becasue I dont remember what settings I use last 2 years, so I got this cut object, and sometime is even inposiible find even what I work (run away when I use mouse wheel) not every time but happen, and sometime is frustrating. How to prevent this ?
thank you.
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That's the well-known clipping plane showing up. Go to Camera menu and click on Perspective. Zoom back to show the whole model and then return to Parallel Projection if you want. Make sure there's nothing at a great distance from the origin because that can cause this issue as well. In the Camera menu, click Zoom Extents. If your model disappears or nearly does, there's something at a long distance from the model that can probably be deleted.
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Use a metric Template...
That'll avoid '/" confusion... -
Dave R
I got one line a long distance and not evenn know that.TIG suggest I can use metric template and imperial units.
Must try if will be ok. Thank you both again
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If you have a Template [or you have reset a model's Units] with 'cm' entering a simple 100 makes the line 100.0cm long.
If you enter another unit with a suitable suffix, then that is take,
So 4" is ~10.2cm, 1' is ~30.4cm, 0.1m is 100.0cm etc.This depends on what you are doing...
Exactly why do you want to work in feet & inches if you are in a metric country?
Surely m/cm/mm would be more logical ?
Then if you need to enter somethings in feet/inches use the suffix...All dimensions are always remembered in the SKP in 'base units', which are inches: but the Model Info > Units or a suitably setup Template will display and take inputs in your preferred units like 'cm' etc...
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Hi. I work something for friend who live in australia, and he is born in metric country, but now live there close 30 years and and totall confusion is on the way
I work in imerial unts, because he will put my drawings on joinery workshop (if I write well) and there will need imeprial units.
thank you
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That is rather odd, Australia has been metric since I was a teenager, and that is quite some time ago.
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The UK is the same - metric since the early 70s... but we still drink pints of beer, have road-sign distances in miles, say we are 6' tall and weigh 12stone3pounds!... and because of the legacy joinery in the millions of houses, doors for domestic use are still typically made and sold imperial 2'6" wide x 6'6" high etc [although they are labeled in 'mm' too, for the younger generation] - metric door-sets [800,900,1000mm etc] are usually made to 'special order' and/or found only in 'commercial buildings' - perhaps you have similar legacy joinery products in OZ ?
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Yes like TIG says, no mater if is AU in mertic system today, I doubt the old-school people use metric, and in fact they stil use miles and all other from imperial system.
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The average Oz is bilingual in this sense. We can use and understand both systems of measurement. We often say things like "I am five foot eleven and three quarters and I weigh one hundred and five kilos but I've lost half a stone", or "the pub is 10 miles down that road but don't drive more than 60 K's an hour as the cops often have a radar set up there." Officially though, metric is the only legal system and therefore everything is labelled in metric. Many "old school" products (those that required expensive retooling) have simply been translated but the majority have been fully converted over the years. There was even a time when dual unit tape measures were banned in an attempt to eradicate imperial, it didn't last long.
A 55 year old is at about the midpoint, the further you are from this age in either direction then the less comfortable you are with the other unit of measurement. My 84 year old father still talks in Feet but then often has to reads his tape measure to see what that is in Meters so he knows what to buy. My 18 year old nephew knows how big the surf is when there is a two foot swell but couldn't hand me a two foot length of wood from the stack in the corner.Working with feet and inches in Australia is very awkward, it means you need to convert everything back to metric when you order your materials, I find it a very strange thing to do, but each to their own.
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@Box you made my day with this post
in positive term.Yes maybe is wrong but I do this favor for my battle pal from old contry
And if he say Imperial I will do that, he got painting studio, and sometimes must rebuild door, windows, shelves etc. And this is one of that cases, but this time work for for himself adaptation of his old house. This project is non profit, OK. must confess I will get few beers and chicken wings when he arrive next year Thx again for nice debate
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No worries!
Just one thing, if you draw your model in a metric template and dimension it, you can save it and then drag the saved file into an imperial template and the dimesions will automatically convert to feet and inches for you.
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