Change units of a parameter

[busycleta]

Dear Community

I feel like a beginner when I try to change the unit of an expression, lets say from deg to mm or unit-less in the parameters dialog.

What am I missing? No dropdown appears and also the option to suppress unit check does not seem to be present.

What am I missing?

Many Thanks

[busycleta]

I am sure it's just a misunderstanding but it seems to me as if once set, units are hardcoded?

Who would do such a thing, sure there is an easy fix to make this work as expected.

Thanks

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

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@busycleta wrote:

What am I missing?

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Units (unfortunately) cannot be changed.

You have to delete the parameter and create a new one.

günther

[jeff_strater]

also discussed in this thread, and probably some others I can't track down:  user-parameter-units .  It is on our radar, definitely.

[busycleta]

Thanks for your reply, also @jeff_strater  , I put "accept solution" to show appreciation, but actually it does not mean accept and solution neither.

Is there some kind of a backlog of bugs to be fixed? I experience many really small but annoying things such as this. Could be fixed as low hanging fruits and have great utility by enabling a seamless workflow without consulting the forum every time for trivial stuff..

would be great to know if Autodesk does a priority of "easy to fix" and "huge utility"...

[pickinben]

It is nuts this "feature" is not at the bedrock of the program or even automatic from a given expression. Please fix!

[busycleta]

Lets call it a bug, annoying and easy to fix

wondering why they leave it in there

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[jhackney1972]

While you are waiting for the ability to change parameter units, you can create Unitless parameters, for those you need to change.  When you use the parameter, in your sketch or modeling, you can add the units and make them anything you want plus you can go back an change them.  Just an idea as we look forward to the Fusion 360 improvement.

[jeff_strater]

This limitation has been fixed in our internal builds.  I don't know exactly what update it will appear in but, rest assured, it is coming.

[stuij007]

Anyway..... A year and a half and several (more like multiple) updates later we're still left stranded........

[jhackney1972]

Message #8 of this thread gives you an easy workaround while you wait for the feature to be added to Fusion 360.  It is not what you want, I know, but it should get you over any humps you have in your workflow.

[busycleta]

Hello Everybody

--> how can I change units ? this is still messed up and does now work

Also: how can I suppress units? I do not have time to deal with this nonsense, how do I switch it off?

[busycleta]

I have a parameter, want to change its units from mm to N
You wont believe, I did not find it !!! Where is it hidden ?

[busycleta]

@jhackney1972thanks for the hint, how can I take away units from given parameter to get rid of this annoyance ?

[jhackney1972]

I am sorry, I do not think this is possible right now without replacing the parameter altogether.  I proposal was suggest to the used from the beginning of a project.  I use unitless parameters normally to avoid the problem of unit mismatch in parameter calculations.

[laughingcreek]

if you're using it for an equation, and you need to strip the unit out, you can divide by the unit in question.

[busycleta]

thanks for the suggestion. how can I put it to "no units" by default?

Greetings

Marco

[jhackney1972]

I do not know of a way to make a parameter default to No Units.  You will have to select it for the units drop down selection.

[busycleta]

Jeff Strater ( forum does not work, no tags allowed )

  can you please roll out all these bugfixes that you all have on your internal builds but we (paying) users are still clicking our ways through absolutely annoying and unnecessary stuff while trying to get work done? It would be nice at least. So far I count already 6 or more completely low hanging fruit issues that product management just forgets to activate. I am also aware, since those are fixed in your internals builds (such as copy drawings with associativity) you do not run into trouble and annoyance all the time, but please try to think of users as well , thank you

[Laprivan]

Dear Busycleta,

I was also confronted by this problem. My solution, as is typical in mathematics is to divide out the units. I needed to create a dimensionless number based on a length. Instead of writing Length (in mm)  divided by 40 (the spacing of the feature), I had to create a parameter called Spacing (in mm) so that Floor(Length mm / Spacing mm) = a unitless integer. This is what Fusion automatically made of it:

( ( floor(Length / Spacing) ) * 1 mm ) / mm

Hope this helps.

Best regards

Laprivan