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Autotext label dimension units?

furtonb
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Hi,

Maybe I've just overlooked it, but is there a way to set the units for the measurements in the autotext label?
The "Dimensions..." settings in the project preferences have no effect on them, nor the working units: e.g. every length measurement is always shown in meters.

For columns etc. though, it is common practice to give these overall measurements in centimetres. In AC22 there would be a workaround to create expression based properties, but
a, we are having AC21, which doesn't have this feature
b, even if we would switch, it's very tedious to keep track of all the required properties.

My question is: is there a way to control the units in which the labeled measurements are shown on autotext labels?

Thank you for your help!
odv.hu | actively using: AC25-27 INT | Rhino6-8 | macOS @ apple silicon / win10 x64
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Can you show a screen shot of your calculation unit settings?

 

Barry.

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Yup,

Sorry, it's in german.

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OK your calculation units are fine - thanks.

But what I think you have used is the autotext for "unit dimension"?

Try using "height" x "width" instead.

I don't know where the "unit dimension" gets the extra decimal precision from.

I have checked calculation units, working units and dimension settings and none of those affect it.

 

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Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

Thank you Barry,

It does somehow work now except for the ^5 decimal.

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Thank you so much again for your help.