Changing active units of measurment

[harwoodjordan]

Hi first post hear. 

Is there a way to change the active unit of measurement with a keyboard shortcut? If not is there a way to set it up to do  this?

I have disability it make it hard to move keyboard to mouse easily and would be a big help if this is possible

[CGBenner]

@harwoodjordan 

Welcome to the forum.

@Phil.E do you know anything about this?

[Phil.E]

There isn't a way to change units with a hot key currently. I'm looking into alternatives and will follow up tomorrow.

[harwoodjordan]

Thank you. I appreciate it!

[Phil.E]

This is what I found. It would require a custom add-in. The add-in would need to create two commands and place them in the toolbar somewhere. 

One command would be for mm, the other for inch. Once you achieve this, a hotkey can be set for the command.

Here is the help section https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-A92A4B10-3781-4925-94C6-47DA85A4F65A

Unfortunately I don't know how to do this. There is a forum dedicated to it.

When you use the "Scripts and Add-Ins" command to create a new add-in, it creates a working add-in that provides the structure and a starting point, but you then have to add the specific functionality desired. 

[graham.wideman]

In case you still need to solve this issue, a user @kandennti has kindly provided such an add-in:

Sample addin to create button to set active units? 

[HughesTooling]

There is an add in in the app store that allows you to create hotkeys for any of Fusion's commands here.

[graham.wideman]

>There is an add in in the app store that allows you to create hotkeys for any of Fusion's commands here

That's good to know about!  In this case, however, it has a slight disadvantage: The command to switch to mm is a different sequence of steps than the command to switch to inches. So that would require two hotkeys. Not fatal, but not quite as convenient as a single command, and hence single hotkey, that toggles between the two (which is what kandennti implemented).

But doubtless I'll have a use for the add-in you mentioned in future!