I tried looking for an answer, but couldn’t find any. I simply want to copy scenes from file A to file B. However, I can’t just ‘save as’ file A, since it’s set in inches, and I want the file in milimeters. Unfortunately I found out too late it was created in inches, having already worked in it. And since you can’t change the file from inches to milimeters (unless I’m missing something), I created a new file. And I need the exact same camera views, because I worked with them outside of Sketchup, and I want to create new ones with different volume massing.
Anyone knows a good solution, like extensions (not paid ones)?
You don’t seem to understand what units do in SketchUp. They control how inputs you type are interpreted by default and how values are displayed. But they don’t affect the actual size of anything. If you switch from inches to mm as @Box wrote, 1inch will then display as 25.4mm. It’s like measuring the same object with two rulers.
I don’t see what creating a new file does for you. If you rescale the model, the cameras won’t be any good in any case. How big is the model? Did you do a lot of work before realizing it was not showing mm?
Thanks guys, I did what @Box mentioned before and initially didn’t work, but just looked again and found out it works when changing from ‘Architectural’ to ‘Decimal’ (it was greyed out on Architectural). I need millimeters because my brain is programmed that way, including measuring and defining sizes. So I guess it’s solved
So you only need two, metric and imperial. Then different settings for how you want them displayed.
Using the terms Architectural and Engineering and having it in feet and thous and not metric is very non universal.
My guess would be that, going along with the internal units always being inches, the design started with attempts to suggest which Americans might use the variations for those units: plain fractions (anyone), feet and inches (architects), decimal inches (engineers). When metric was added, it exposed the parochial thinking of those names but they were kept for backward compatibility.