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switch project from mm to inch ?

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 09:04:19 GMT

Hello

How to switch an existing project from mm to inch?

Thank you in advance!

Yours sincerely
Mathias Beyer

Hallo

Wie schaltet man ein bestehendes Projekt von mm auf zoll um ?

Danke im voraus!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Mathias Beyer

Betreff: switch project from mm to inch ?

Matthias.K — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 07:24:22 GMT

Hallo Mathias,

das ist meines Wissens nicht möglich. Selbst ein Kopieren von Features, Geometrien usw. von einem Zoll in ein Millimeter-Projekt klappt nicht. Oder anders: kann man schon, nur z.B. 10 Zoll werden dann als 10 Millimeter erzeugt. Es wird also nur die Einheit getauscht, aber nix umgerechnet.

Nur als möglicher Lösungsansatz, vielleicht kannst du deinen Postprozessor so ändern, dass er Koordinaten automatisch von Zoll in Millimenter umrechnet?

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that's not possible. Even copying features, geometries etc. from an imperial project to an metric project dosnt't deliver the expected results.

Grüße, Matthias

Betreff: switch project from mm to inch ?

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:40:58 GMT

I have some machines that run in metric and some that run in inch. I spend a good part of my day doing conversions, for everything from tools to feeds and speeds. there ought to be a better way.

Betreff: switch project from mm to inch ?

kelbie.ockey — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 19:46:27 GMT

As I understand it, you should be able to use a metric post for an inch document and have everything come out with the desired metric values.

Outside of that....yeah. You need to redo things.

Re: switch project from mm to inch ?

rfuentes — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:47:29 GMT

we have a crib for metric and inch, and you can copy a tool from the metric crib and it will output it in inches if you have your settings to INCHES.

Betreff: switch project from mm to inch ?

Matthias.K — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 05:21:06 GMT

@kelbie.ockey, it's not that easy. My suggestion was to modify the (metric) post to convert all coordinates from imperial to metric. Haven't tested that, because I'm not that into postprocessoring, but might work.