It is impossible to choose to have the area in square feet when our SketchUp file’s unit of measurement is not decimal; the option disappears when we want it in fractional or architectural units. [image]

This seems to be a bug. In 2026 I see that it shows in^2 in the model info units, but shows ft^2 in the entity info, and I cannot change it: [Screenshot 2026-03-09 at 18.08.11] But is show in^2 and cannot be changed in Fractional as you show, and I cannot change it: [Screenshot 2026-03-09 at 18…

Confirmed. I checked back to SU24 as I had it handy, same behavior. When set to Architectural the area and volume choices are greyed out and list as inches² and inches³ but both display in Feet. In Fractional lists as inches and displays as inches, also greyed out and unchangeable. Also: The Eng…

I’ve also noticed this, and assumed that rather than being bug per-se, it was a deliberate design decision by the developers. I have no inside info about why, but I wonder if they just concluded that nobody works with area or volume in fractional units so they implemented only decimal. Can someone…

[image] slbaumgartner: Can someone provide a use case for fractional area or volume, or is this just a matter of providing I cannot, fractional area and volume would be odd to me. I can see the use in choosing fractional inches as length, decimalized feet as area and yards as volume, or even…

[image] endlessfix: as MM Note, it should be lowercase (mm). Uppercase M means “mega”. Just because SketchUp sometimes has odd notions about metric notation like using expressions like “millimeters²” instead of “mm²”.

It is impossible to choose to have the area in square feet

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armin March 9, 2026, 7:31pm 6

I have the same issue; frustrating. who wants square inches?

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It is impossible to choose to have the area in square feet

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