topic Re: currentUnit command error in Maya Programming Forum

currentUnit command error

jayantbhatt07 — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:02:58 GMT

Hi got this command from autodesk blog but it dosent' work. Got to orthographic view and run this command. Any Idea?

currentUnit -linear "in";

Re: currentUnit command error

mspeer — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:49:19 GMT

Hi!

What error message do you get?

Here it works.

If there is no error message, then i guess changing units has more impact on your scene than you expected.

You may need to adapt some settings when changing units.

Re: currentUnit command error

jayantbhatt07 — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 05:15:12 GMT

Hi thanks for your reply. Actually when I run this command its is changing the unit CM to INCH but it is not changing the grid size.

Re: currentUnit command error

jayantbhatt07 — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 06:22:39 GMT

currentUnit -linear "ft";
grid -d 5 -sp 5 -s 12;

For other users.

ft = foot

cm = centimeter

Re: currentUnit command error

mspeer — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:48:18 GMT

Hi!

That's correct, if you want different settings for the Grid you have to change this manual.

Re: currentUnit command error

jayantbhatt07 — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 10:05:11 GMT

Hi I was messing with the maya found headsupdisplay command thats really cool. I found one command on internet which shows time inside maya viewport ( Very cool feature according to me) but it is not updating automatically I have to update it manually. Is that possible it should work automatically? Like update time.

Thank you for answering my so many posts. 🙂

COMMAND

headsUpDisplay
-section 8
-block 0
-label "Current Time:"
-command "date -time"
-event "timeChanged"
HUDTime;
headsUpDisplay -refresh HUDTime;

Re: currentUnit command error

mspeer — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 16:53:41 GMT

Hi!

timeChanged reacts to time changes in the Maya scene and not of the system time.

The command that comes closest to what you may need is "idle" or "idleVeryLow" if you want to make sure not to block anything.

(As long as you are editing something you will not look at the clock anyway)

Example:

headsUpDisplay
-section 8
-block 0
-label "Current Time:"
-command "date -time"
-event "idle"
HUDTime;

Re: currentUnit command error

jayantbhatt07 — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 17:32:16 GMT

Hi,

Thank you so much for reply. you are replying my posts since 2016 🙂 . Autodesk should give you man of the year.

🙂