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Converting from Architectural Units to Decimal Units eInvalidInput error

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 18:43:30 GMT

I've been using the Runtime.Converter to convert units to display correctly in text boxes after a user selects a different unit via a combobox on the form. When I have 1/2" in the textbox and try to convert it to decimal units (or any other unit for that matter) I get an eInvalidInput error. This is only happening when I change from Architectural to something else. All other conversions are working just fine. I'm using AutoCAD 2019 and the code is in C#

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Converting from Architectural Units to Decimal Units eInvalidInput error

Alexander.Rivilis — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 19:28:27 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Please provide code you are using for converting.

Re: Converting from Architectural Units to Decimal Units eInvalidInput error

_gile — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 19:41:50 GMT

Hi,

You should show a code "not working" snippet.

This works for me (returns 0.5):

Converter.StringToDistance("1/2\"", DistanceUnitFormat.Architectural)

Re: Converting from Architectural Units to Decimal Units eInvalidInput error

Alexander.Rivilis — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 19:55:18 GMT

@Anonymous

You can get this exception if system variable LUNITS different from 4 and you use short form of

Converter.StringToDistance("1/2\"") method instead of

Converter.StringToDistance("1/2\"", DistanceUnitFormat.Architectural) method

Re: Converting from Architectural Units to Decimal Units eInvalidInput error

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:16:24 GMT

Sorry I was unable to post a code snippet - I believe I was simply using the 2nd parameter incorrectly.