Hello Alasdair,
Unit settings under 'preferences' shouldn't affect grid snap. You can for
instance have a grid of meters and have numeric input set to millimiters.
If, in this setup, you'd draw a cube of 1x1x1 units (by numeric input) you'd
end up with a cube of one cubic millimeter, despite the grid.
Or thinking the other way about: if you have drawn a cube on a 1 meter grid
and than set the unit scale to millimeters the cube will still be 1 cubic
meter. Unit scale has no affect on object size. It's like that both in V5
and V6.
If it doesn't work this way on your end you may have encountered a bug.
Regards,
Frank Bueters
Hi frank
in prefereces I have; mm cm m km inch feet yard mile and these affect the
grid size snap and numeric input it would be handy to add other scales to
this list and expose it on the main interface - it is very odd that the view
properties where you can make custom scales does not affect the numeric
input, is this the same in v6?
Alasdair
----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Bueters <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:18 PM
Subject: RE: numeric input
Hi Alasdair,
The grid size and the numeric input are independent.
The viewwindow grid that you select from the selectwindow has no influence
on the units that you set under file/preferences.
All example grids are metric but I expect any new grid that is made in an
environment with feet or inches will give grids in these units. I haven't
tried this though.
Frank Bueters
Hi folks
still using v5 :(
in preferences I can set the grid size and when I create an object with
numeric input can create an exact sized object. I then change the grid size
in view properties but this has no effect on the numeric input - if it was
1X1X1 foot then it will still be 1x1x1 foot instead of say 1x1x1 inch.
I know v5 has been left behind so, how do I make the preferences show more
selections of scales?
thanks
Alasdair Whyte
www.digitalmystic.co.uk
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