Unit system

[jeroen.van.halderen]

Dear developers,

I always wondered why Revit uses the imperial system as it's internal unit system, while most of the world, including the scientific world, uses metric. I know that Autodesk is an American company and therefore uses the American system of measurement, but honestly Revit just looks kind of silly for using the imperial system as it's internal unit system. I think switching to metric as Revit's internal unit system would also make Revit easier to run because the units in metric are all equally differentiated from each other.

Thanks in advance for considering my request!

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Halderen

[RPTHOMAS108]

I agree probably most agree but it is one of those inherited legacy things. Could you imagine the disruption to virtually every aspect of Revit that would cause? The unit system and all that goes with it touches upon virtually every aspect. It's not for me to say it is insurmountable but I would just expect the next version to contain many unforeseen bugs if it was actually attempted.

Then I'm going to upgrade the model from one version to the next where all these internal unit conversions need to take place, no please.

Area of steel different to area of room that is the Revit thing that gets me. I guess it is based upon the different ways we want to display such things.

Incidentally I was looking at the ASTM steel sections excel sheet the other month expecting it all to be imperial but a lot of the parameters were metric.