Shouldnt this return 'cm'?

[m_carreira3Y72Q]

app = adsk.core.Application.get()

ui = app.userInterface

design = adsk.fusion.Design.cast(app.activeProduct)

uManager = design.unitsManager

units = uManager.internalUnits

print(f"Current length units: {units}")

Current length units: InternalUnits

[kandennti]

Hi @m_carreira3Y72Q -san.

I tried it too, with the same result.

[m_carreira3Y72Q]

I am just wondering if i undestand it right, i was expecting 'cm', but there has to be more internal units, other than the ones used to measure distances, so... i'm not sure what to make of this, still think there is something wrong here...

[kandennti]

Problems will likely arise.

        print(f"formatValue: {unitsMgr.formatValue(1)}")
        print(f"formatValue: {unitsMgr.formatValue(1, 'cm')}")
        print(f"formatValue: {unitsMgr.formatValue(1, unitsMgr.internalUnits)}") #error

[BrianEkins · Accepted solution]

It seems a bit worthless, but I found that it does work with the UnitsManager.convert method. Here are some examples and their results. You can see that it's not limited to distances but infers the unit type from the other specified unit. I think it would be best if this wasn't in the API because it's not very useful and just creates confusion about what it's for.

um.convert(1, "in", "InternalUnits") 
2.54

um.convert(180, "deg", "InternalUnits")
3.141592653589793