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Changing active units of measurment

harwoodjordan — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:34:43 GMT

Hi first post hear.

Is there a way to change the active unit of measurement with a keyboard shortcut? If not is there a way to set it up to do this?

I have disability it make it hard to move keyboard to mouse easily and would be a big help if this is possible

Re: Changing active units of measurment

CGBenner — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:40:30 GMT

@harwoodjordan

Welcome to the forum.

@Phil.E do you know anything about this?

Re: Changing active units of measurment

Phil.E — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:55:36 GMT

There isn't a way to change units with a hot key currently. I'm looking into alternatives and will follow up tomorrow.

Re: Changing active units of measurment

harwoodjordan — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:07:29 GMT

Thank you. I appreciate it!

Re: Changing active units of measurment

Phil.E — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:04:21 GMT

This is what I found. It would require a custom add-in. The add-in would need to create two commands and place them in the toolbar somewhere.

One command would be for mm, the other for inch. Once you achieve this, a hotkey can be set for the command.

Here is the help section https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-A92A4B10-3781-4925-94C6-47DA85A4F65A

Unfortunately I don't know how to do this. There is a forum dedicated to it.

When you use the "Scripts and Add-Ins" command to create a new add-in, it creates a working add-in that provides the structure and a starting point, but you then have to add the specific functionality desired.

Re: Changing active units of measurment

graham.wideman — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 20:50:22 GMT

In case you still need to solve this issue, a user @kandennti has kindly provided such an add-in:

Sample addin to create button to set active units?

Re: Changing active units of measurment

HughesTooling — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 07:48:48 GMT

There is an add in in the app store that allows you to create hotkeys for any of Fusion's commands here.

Re: Changing active units of measurment

graham.wideman — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:15:54 GMT

>There is an add in in the app store that allows you to create hotkeys for any of Fusion's commands here

That's good to know about! In this case, however, it has a slight disadvantage: The command to switch to mm is a different sequence of steps than the command to switch to inches. So that would require two hotkeys. Not fatal, but not quite as convenient as a single command, and hence single hotkey, that toggles between the two (which is what kandennti implemented).

But doubtless I'll have a use for the add-in you mentioned in future!