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Angle Parameter Input for Sloping Elements Needs Options

I would like to see the mode of angle selection that is used for roofs - degrees, percentage and x feet/incehes in12 - available for all ArchiCAD elements that are slopable.

Walls, Beams and Columns. Framers don't always think in degrees and the logic of much of our North American Wood Frame Buildings relates to a slope that is scribed onsite with a Roof Framing Square. Even if it's prefabricated in a shop, the underlying logic is deeply rooted in the psyche. It's something the metric system really never did any better.
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Barry Kelly
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Aaron wrote:
I would like to see the mode of angle selection that is used for roofs - degrees, percentage and x feet/incehes in12 - available for all ArchiCAD elements that are slopable.
And now in 17 and 18 we only have the option for degrees and percentage.
In fact the last version I saw with feet/inches in 12 was version 14 (at least here in AUS).

We could also do with the degrees option being available in decimal and degrees, minutes and seconds.
Altering the working units in preferences has no impact on roofs.

Barry.
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David Maudlin
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Barry wrote:
Altering the working units in preferences has no impact on roofs.
In the US version, changing the Working Units to Feet/Inches gives the Rise/Run option for Roofs, changing to metric looses this option.

David
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