On the fly TOGGLING UNITS for distance DISPLAY with TAPE and LINE tools

[john_mcclenahan]

@Wo3Dan

try to create an edge with the length of 10’ or 20" or a combination of feet and inches.

WARNING
If you try to do this in a metric template, with mixed ft, in and fractions input in the Measurement box YOU GET WRONG LENGTHS.

SU doesn't recognise fractional inches (e.g., 1/2") as an imperial measurement when units are mm

I thought that SU would recognise imperial units (feet, inches and fractions) in the Measurements box, even if model units were set to mm. It doesn’t recognise fractional inches. And no, I’m not using curly quotes. Drawing in mm with two decimal places, I tried to push-pull 1/2" (where I type in the 1/2" characters. I get 0.5mm instead. if I type in 0.5", I get what I expect - half an inch or 12.7mm. This seems to me like a bug, or at least behaviour I don’t expect. It seems also to be true…

It is partially but not full fixed in more recent versions of SU.

DON’T DO IT.