Unit Conversion in Dimension Tool

Unit Conversion in Dimension Tool

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Unit Conversion in Dimension Tool

powerflexplacement
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Our workplace has been moving from Solidworks over to Fusion360, 

 

On Solidworks, when you are dimensioning a feature on a part, and have units set to mm, if you enter 3/4" it will dimension it to that, and automatically convert it to mm and display it in mm, so entering 3/4" or 3/4in will give an output of 19.05mm

Any ideas on how to do the same in Fusion360? I've tried the above but doesn't seem to work...

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kellings
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Hi @powerflexplacement I'm looking into this one now. I've never tried to use imperial numbers in a metric document. Imperial numbers seem to work fine by adding the unit after the value (in) but it doesn't seem to work with fractions. 

 

Let me check to see if there is a different way to do this. You can enter in .75 in and it will work, so far I can't figure out how to get it to work by typing in the fraction. 

 

Kevin

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So far the only way I can get it to work as you want with a fraction is to enter it this way: (3/4)*1 in or to convert the fraction to a decimal and then add the " or in after. 

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