Working Units to be part of Work Environment?

[Laszlo Nagy]

I am curious about how people think about this:
There is the Working Units Dialog which in AC13 is now a separate Dialog, not part of the Project Preferences Dialog.
We had this issue in our office that one person likes to enter values and coordinates in meters, but the other one likes to use centimeter because then she does not have to enter decimals.
So to me this looks like a setting dependent of User Preferences.
In which case it may be better located in the Work Environment Dialog.
What do you guys think?

[Anonymous]

Geoff wrote:
And yes, Laszlo, metric is sooo much easier in this and many other regards. Even so I am surprised that you never switch between m and mm.

he probably never works in steel or wood detailing

[Laszlo Nagy]

Geoff wrote:
I just tested and indeed the setting remain separate for each user. I reset my working units to mm, did a S/R, went to Matt's station, did a S/R. His are still set to FFI. Did it twice to be sure, even though I already knew the result because if this setting was transfered with every S/R we would have killed each other a long time ago.

The setting may reside with the project in the sense that each project can have it's own setting, but in TW the setting is per user.

Yes, you are right. Thanks for the correction.
Actually, it makes sense as each User has its own copy of the shared Project file.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Philippe wrote:

Geoff wrote:
And yes, Laszlo, metric is sooo much easier in this and many other regards. Even so I am surprised that you never switch between m and mm.

he probably never works in steel or wood detailing

Yes, I am not doing that kind of stuff.
Our office is involved mainly in residential and multi-residential projects.