Topic: Switch Between Fractional & Architectural units

[Pukenzz]

99% of my drawing is done in Fractional Units.  From time to time I want to view / verify a snapped dimension in Architecture (Feet Inches) does anybody have a quick easy macro or lips that they could share that I can put on a button to toggle from Fraction to Feet Inches, and then I'd be looking for one to toggle back.

Thanks in advance

[CAB]

Look up LUNITS and Setvar

[ronjonp]

Something like this?

Code - Auto/Visual Lisp: [Select]

1. (defun c:foo (/ d)
2.   (if (setq d (getdist "\nPick your distance: "))
3.     (alert (strcat (rtos d 2 3) "\n" (rtos d 3 3)))
4.   )
5.   (princ)
6. )

[PKENEWELL]

Simple Lisp or Macro to change the units of a Dimension:

Code - Auto/Visual Lisp: [Select]

1. (command "_dimoverride" "_dimlunit" "4" "" pause "") ; Set to Architectural
2.  
3. (command "_dimoverride" "_dimlunit" "5" "" pause "") ; Set to Fractional
4.  

"1" is Scientific, "2" is Decimal, "3" is Engineering, "4" is Architectural, "5" is Fractional, "6" is Follow Windows Format.

If you want to select more than one dimension at a time, you'll have to use (ssget) in place of where the [pause] is in the command.