making a universal PIO

[DCarpenter]

I'm looking for documentation that tells me how to make my PIO work regardless of weather or not the user is working in metric or Imperial units. I remember seeing it once, but for the life of me, I just can't find it now.

Thanks for your time to answer.

Dave

[Jim Smith]

We go back & forth between the two systems all the time and all we do is type the either inches ( " ) or millimetres ( mm ) after the integer.

For example: My Document preference is set to millimetres. I want to mandate a

7 7/8" tread rise maximum in my Stair PIO. I would type 7 7/8" (or 7.825") .

Works the other way too. Need to mandate a handrail extension to 300 mm on an imperial drawing? Type 300mm & VW will make the conversion.

BTW, I have two custom Dimensions that call out my secondary (Imperial) dimensions so I can issue some clarifications to trades who are more comfortable working in Imperial. This can work the other way around if one sets their Secondary Units to millimetres.

[DCarpenter]

Thanks Jim,

I am familiar with the flexibility of VW to use either 20" or 20mm as a way of inputting distances within VW, but what I'm looking for is for vectorscripting within a PIO script. If the script calculates something at 18", but the user is working in meters the PIO fails to operate correctly. I thought I remembered a document that explains this but I can't seen to find it.

I hope someone out there can help.

[klinzey]

Post over in the Vectoscript Forum, you will get a lot more help there.

There are calls to get document units, dialog controls and other calls that automatically take document units and unit marks into consideration.

[DCarpenter]

Thanks.