In the past, ODBC exported in either Metric or Imperial depending on the
project units setting. The actual units exported were not neccessarily those
of the project. A single unit was either 1 foot (decimal feet not
feet/inches) or 1 meter reagardless of whether the project's base unit was
set to cm, mm, etc. This variability in export made it difficult for users
and 3rd parties to develop applications based on the export without writing
different versions for each units system. In 7.0, we switched to metric only
to provide consistent, nomalized output. Most database apps contain robust
units conversion functions. These can be used to construct reports.
We decided that although this would create some pain for users now, it would
have to be done in the end and be much easier to do now before many actual
applications are developed.
"Robert Plummer" wrote in message
news:41a39e83_2@newsprd01...
> In ODBC exports previously our unit measures came out in Feet (at least
for
> Imperial based projects). Now all my exports come out in Meters. Is this
> true across the board now? Did this change intentionally? Is this a
> permanent change? Is there a new setting I am missing? I didn't see any
> documentation about this change, but maybe I am not looking in the right
> place.
>
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