My apologies! My original post got bounced since I inlined the patch. The reply you got here was only about 1/4 of my post. I will repaste to clarify some of my points I was trying to make.
Original email: ----- I was messing around with imperial units in blender and found it to be a pita. I dug around a bit and thought I would offer some ideas. The patch below, while incomplete (didn't bother to fill the area structs for the new 1/2, 1/4 etc units for eg.) and proper english/spelling, seems to be somewhat of a step in the right direction. Specifically, I think that yards should either always be hidden, or checkboxes should maybe be added to allow the user to enable and disable the units he would like to see. I even thought a new button on the panel specifically called "Architectural" that specifically turns off yards and enabled fractions, would be a good way to go. To give you an idea, when I want to work on a blueprint to model something and create an object 9' long, I don't want to see 3yd, I want to see 9' :) I also messed with the idea of using 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32 units and seems to display fine, but needs some more thought in the area of dealing with the fact that the input box also allows math in it, so the position of the -1/2 has to be very precise it seems. Also, I was unable to figure out how to tell blender to not use fractions in front of the unit type. eg: it shows 1.5-1/2" instead of 1-1/4". I think that the most important problem though is that you can't enter in actual inches or feet etc, when doing transforms. Blender seems to limit me to only metric like numbers. Just allowing imperial units in any translations would be very useful (along with disabling yard displaying perhaps). Anyways, if any of you coders out there feel bored, please take a look. I think this is one area where blender is needs a few lines of TLC :D Take care o/ http://www.pasteall.org/30003 ----- PS - I will reply to the responses in a second post to avoid another bounced email! Sorry! :) troubled _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers