Feet vs Inches

[CADMama]

OK - in case you have not heard - I've gone over to the Revit side.
Get ready for a TON of beginner questions.

For starters - do I have to live with the input going in feet by default? It is driving me crazy to have to put in the " (inch mark) every time I need it. This is especially difficult since I have a cast on my right hand!

[Tom Dorner]

Welcome to the bright side!

Try this thread for an answer:

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.ph...ight=inch+worm

Tom

[CADMama]

Welcome to the bright side!

Try this thread for an answer:

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.ph...ight=inch+worm

Tom

From what I see it may not be a good thing for me - laptop only here.
(Or did I miss something when I read about it?)

[aaronrumple]

I've found it faster.

You can use:

7"
0 7
1'-1 3/4"
1 1 3/4
1 1.75

Basically anthing that even kind of sort of looks like a dimension.

What I would like to see is a zoom level switch. When zoomed in to a detail it would be nice if Revit automatically switched to inches.

[CADMama]

I've found it faster.

You can use:

7"
0 7
1'-1 3/4"
1 1 3/4
1 1.75

Basically anthing that even kind of sort of looks like a dimension.

What I would like to see is a zoom level switch. When zoomed in to a detail it would be nice if Revit automatically switched to inches.

~bangs head - repeats mantra "it ain't my daddy's autocad, it ain't my daddy's autocad....."~
OK, thanks for the insight.
~repeats new mantra "revit good, revit good, revit good,.....~

[Scott D Davis]

i like:

0 <space> 7

0-7

0 <space > 68 will input 68 inches (or 5'-8")

if you need to input 7 and 7/8 of an inch, type in:

0 <space> 7.875

When I use the keyboard on my laptop, use the <space> in between numbers. When I'm on the docking station with a full keyboard, I use the 10-key number pad, and use the Minus sign in between numbers.

HTH! And welcome to Revit...."You've got questions? We've got answers."

[Wes Macaulay]

if you need to input 7 and 7/8 of an inch, type in:

0 <space> 7.875

I think you can also input this as

0 <space> 7 <space> 7/8 <enter>

If that's any help

[Kroke]

OK - in case you have not heard - I've gone over to the Revit side.
Get ready for a TON of beginner questions.

For starters - do I have to live with the input going in feet by default? It is driving me crazy to have to put in the " (inch mark) every time I need it. This is especially difficult since I have a cast on my right hand!

So you guys are trying Revit again? Cool!

Show me some of your stuff when you get some elevations done

[Rachel Ritchie]

We don't do this in our office, but I think it would work.
You could always go to Settings, and then set up your Project Units to be "fractional inches". Then go to Settings, then your annotation, and dimensions, and change your linear dimensional units format to be "feet and inches".
But like I said, we don't do this in our office.

[Wes Macaulay]

That's a good tip, Rachel: possibly someone might just roll with that. Besides, that's what AutoCAD does and what everyone who initially moves to Revit is used to...