Trouble drawing a rectangle

[john_mcclenahan]

|'ve just posted on another thread that if you are using any metric units as your model units, then imperial/US customary units entered in the Measurements box can be misinterpreted. This has been only partially fixed in SU 2019 onwards.

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

for an explanation of what happened in SU up to v2017, persisted in 2018, and was partially fixed in 2019.

@john_mcclenahan

If the model units are metric, and you enter imperial dimensions as ft, in and fraction values, for example 1’8 5/16, these can be mangled on entry, and produce unexpected and wrong results if you use just feet followed by a foot mark (’) then inches and fractions without the inch symbol (").

It’s been partially corrected in SU2019 onwards, I think, so if you use both ft and inch quotes, you get the right answer. So 1’8 5/16" produces the right length in mm, but 1’8 5/16 doesn’t.