Scott, it is only to allow to "type" the units like in they are typed in
AutoCAD and ACA. That it is. Just an "option" and it will satisfy
everybody, without changing what is already there.
"Scott D Davis" wrote in message
news:6332484@discussion.autodesk.com...
> Its not about the Revit programmers having difficulty comprehending. It's
> the fact that you have done AutoCAD for years, which is not based upon
> feet/inches or metric system, but is based upon a "unit" of measure.
> Typing
> 20 can be 20 inches or feet or millimeters or kilometers or....part of the
> reason why there is issues in AutoCAD converting from Imperial to metric,
> and why drawings have to be scaled 22.54. Or why when I got a file from
> my
> civil engineer I had to always scale it up 12 times because he worked in
> decimal feet and I worked in feet and inches.
>
> Revit uses real-world dimensions, and no scaling or scale factors are
> invloved. Draw something 20", and its 20 inches. Draw something 20mm,
> and
> it will draw it 20 millimeters. Revit defaults to feet for data input
> because most units of measure concerning a building start out as feet. Of
> course as you refine the design, inches become useful.
>
> In Revit, 20 means feet. but you can also use the following:
>
> 20 6 means 20 feet 6 inches (which btw is alot less keystrokes than
> 20'-6")
> 20-6 also means 20 feet 6 inches. i find this useful when using a 10-key
> pad for numerical entry
> 0-20 means 20 inches
> 20" means 20 inches
> 0 20.625 means 20 5/8 inches
> 0-20.625 means 20 5/8 inches
> 1 6 5/8 means 1 foot 6 and 5/8 inches
> 1-6.625 means 1 foot 6 and 5/8 inches
> 1-6 5/8 means 1 foot 6 and 5/8 inches
> 20mm means 20 millimeters (even if you are in an imperial project)
> 200cm means 200cm
>
> I could go on but hopefully this helps you see that the Revit system is
> far
> easier and far more flexible than the AutoCAD method. Yes it takes some
> getting used to, but so did using ESC instead of Ctrl-C to cancel a
> command
> when AutoCAD went from r12 to r13/r14 for Windows.
>
>
> wrote in message news:6331750@discussion.autodesk.com...
> Matt,
> Thanks, it helps a little. *Most* annoying every time I tried to move a
> column or wall and forgot the inch mark.
>
> I'm sure you see that 0 20 is twice the number of keystrokes of 20.
> Just wondering why an ARCH unit setting is seemingly so difficult for the
> Revit programmers to comprehend. I know it'd really help me out on the
> transitioning process. Don't know if I'm alone here.
>
> Best regards,
> David Kozina
>
>
>
> "Matt Dillon" wrote in message
> news:6331701@discussion.autodesk.com...
> David,
>
> You can't change the default units to inches, however you don't need the
> shift key either.
>
> you can input distances like this: 10 6 1/2, which will be read as 10'-6
> 1/2".
>
> So to move something 20 inches, you can input 0 20.
>
> --
>
> wrote in message news:6331655@discussion.autodesk.com...
> Could someone please direct me to a simple option setting so that I can
> enter default distance values as INCH units, instead of feet?
>
> I would find it *really* nice to move a wall over, say, 20, and not find
> it
> on the neighbor's lawn.
>
> Do the programmers at Autodesk realize that that little inch mark requires
> a
> SHIFT on most keyboards that I've seen?
>
> More than sufficiently cheesed just thinking about it,
> David Kozina