Quick access to units

[J. Wallace]

I'm switching between metric and standard for most drawings I do. I went to school during Canada's transition and I've never taken both feet out of either standard. I would be great if the units dialogue box was available via the top tool bar, or at least given an option to do so.

[zoomer]

If this helps people in transition to the real units,

I'll +1 that too

[michaelk]

I also flip back and forth.

Here are a couple of somewhat cleaned up but really poorly written scripts that change the settings to

Feet and Inches primary and Millimeters secondary

Millimeters primary and Feet and Inches secondary

Meters primary and Feet and Inches secondary

I can't find the setting to change the area and volume units. I'm sure it's SetPrefInt(something hard to find,#);

If anyone knows how to set the area and volume units, please let me know!

mk

[J. Wallace]

Hi MK

Thank you very much for that...what a great idea.

I installed it as a script and then placed it into my workspace and assigned a shortcut. I've been using VW since VW 10.5 and have never used a script before...works well.

Your quite right when you toggle back and forth between say metric and feet and inches the units displayed in metric are example 1 1/8m, I can change this manually to show decimals but if anyone can tell me how to change the script to reflect this it would be handy. Thank you again MK.

[michaelk]

I'll ask on the vector script forum. One of those geniuses will know.

mk

[michaelk]

J.

You might want to replace the scripts already posted with these. It corrects the problem of having 33 1/8 mm

There's still more I don't get about scripting the document units. But these are slightly better.

mk

[Steven Morgan]

@michaelk digging up an old one here... I don't see that attachment anywhere. Any chance somebody has a units switcher script?

[michaelk]

These are the 4 I'm currently using.  Let me know if there's something else you need them to do.

Set Document Units.vwx Set Document Units v2020.vwx

[Steven Morgan]

Brilliant, thanks. Would there be anyway to select a Saved Preset Unit Setting? I don't see that anywhere in the VS Docs. If not this is plenty to get the job done. 

 

Thanks!

[michaelk]

Not that I know of.  But you can make a simple script that has all the settings.  For example, the ones I just posted ignore volume setting, because it's not something I typically need.  But it wouldn't be a big deal to add.