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 t…

Yes, works the same under Windows. Basically fractional (division) input only works for current model units. [image] eneroth3: Maybe 1"/2 works. No this does not work on Windows. Nor does using any from of bracketing. All result in a “Invalid length entered.” tooltip. In your case, the o…

I wasn’t so much expecting it to do calculations, just do what it does when you input imperial dimensions. I haven’t (but will) see what happens if I try 1'1" - not at computer at the moment but will try later tonight.

[image] john_mcclenahan: I haven’t (but will) see what happens if I try 1’1" … This works fine because there is no fractional division going on.

I get confused behaviour if I use something like 1’3 or 1’6 when units are set to mm. A line set to 1’3 long comes out at 307.8 mm - one foot, plus 3mm. 1’6 becomes 310.8mm 10 1/2" becomes 10.5mm 1’ 3 1/2" becomes 308.3mm - one foot plus 3.5mm, in spite of the " (inch) mark. I think this is jus…

[image] john_mcclenahan: I think this is just a muddle. It recognises the unit characters (foot and inch marks, separately) but ignores a mixture of the two in a bizarre and confusing way, … I agree and think most of us have agreed in past threads on this. [image] john_mcclenahan: While …

[image] DanRathbun: I agree and think most of us have agreed in past threads on this. Sorry, I was guilty of not searching for past threads first - I got so irritated by the behaviour I just let off steam! I’ve never directly noticed it before, and in over a year’s worth of reading almost eve…

Also, typing 1’1/2" doesn’t work - it adds 0,5 mm to the foot

Yes, I found something like that too. It’s a right muddle. And SHOULD be easy to fix - the code to interpret lengths properly exists in Imperial unit models, so it can’t be difficult to add or adapt for metric unit models.

[image] john_mcclenahan: … and in over a year’s worth of reading almost every thread on this forum, don’t remember seeing anything like it mentioned in that time - but it may be a much older bug: I was referring more generally (as Wo3Dan did) to long standing requests about the VCB’s behavior…

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

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

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