imperial & metric areas at the same time

[Anonymous]

living in Canada, I need to constantly move between metric & imperial for areas. right now I am just just using fills with "show area text" on, and I am able to see the areas in either metric or imperial based on my options/prefrences settings and I save the views in my view sets based on how I need to publish it. but I also need to show the areas in both units at the same time! (ie 1000 sq ft, 92.9 m2)
I would use the zone tool if I knew it would allow for that but I can't seem to find a way of doing it. any ideas?

[TomWaltz]

What you are asking for is not possible with the Fill tool or any Zone marker that comes with Archicad.

It would be possible with some custom GDL programming to alter a Zone marker to show both Imperial and Metric units at the same time.

[Dwight]

(intake of breath in preparation for rant)

But, Canada, being so polite in becoming "metric" back in the seventies, is dishonest about it.

Our building materials, because of exports to the USA (no matter how hard their softwood lumber guys protest) are all still imperial modules, even if described with metric equivalents.

For instance:

a 2x4 is 38x89mm - unllike in New Zealand where a 2x4 is a he-man sized 50x100mm. Much better in a fight.

Our plywood, while made in accurate metric thicknesses like (sanded) 6,8,11,14,etc - is 1220x2440mm. (really 1219x1238) - and you can get a 2500 length, at least, and for special orders 1200x2400, (but try and buy just one of those at the lumber yard.) Go figure.

Rational schmational!