Hangman,
299.83 cm = 118.04 inches
I believe what you're seeing is the measurement in "inches". I'm not where I can check this so can't be certain, but is the Drawing Units -> Length set to decimal? Maybe change that to Architectural for feet and inches if that's what you want to see using distance.
It looks like this drawing was created in Imperial, so to get the Distance command to work the way you want it to would mean either recreating the drawing using Metric units or scaling the drawing up by 2.54 and changing the Dimstyle settings to reflect the change. I don't really think there's an easy way around that, but maybe somebody else will have another solution.
Do you have to get the Metric equivalent when using Distance or could you just convert it using a calculator (or LISP)? I'm betting somebody here has a LISP that would give the distance in both.
It looks like this drawing was created in Imperial, so to get the Distance command to work the way you want it to would mean either recreating the drawing using Metric units or scaling the drawing up by 2.54 and changing the Dimstyle settings to reflect the change. I don't really think there's an easy way around that, but maybe somebody else will have another solution.
Do you have to get the Metric equivalent when using Distance or could you just convert it using a calculator (or LISP)? I'm betting somebody here has a LISP that would give the distance in both.
Quick caveat - can't tell for sure, but if you're using a vertical product (Civil3D, LDT, etc.) there may be another way out of this but I don't have access to these. Maybe somebody else can help?
Are you required by contract to use BOTH Metric and Imperial dimensions???
If not I would ditch the Imperial altogether and draw/annotate everything in Metric, MUCH easier and no need to convert anything