Metric & Imperial

Under Review

Working in Canada, we use metric and imperial daily. Our government mandates metric use when they build. Our suppliers cater to US and work in Imperial. I would like to be able set my scale with the metric measurements on the drawings and get an imperial output. Planswift does this. Right now i have a set of metric drawings loaded into ZZ that are scaled to 1:50. No dimensions are noted on it. if I plug in the metric 1:50 scale... I only can get metric out. This does not work for me.

Also... More metric preset scales would be nice. Can you add?

1:30

1:40

1:75

Thanks

Heber Allred zzTakeoff11d 15h

Hi Beau! For the output in imperial, are you after mostly the measurements such as Square Feet, or is it particularly for Quantities of material?

Regarding additional pre-set scales, we have added those, and they will come out in our next release, which we expect to deploy tomorrow.

Beau Mitchell 11d 15h

Hi Heber,

How are you?! Thanks for the prompt reply back.

We are loading metric drawings into ZZ, and I am looking for my output units to be Imperial... If I am working in linear measurements then I would like to see ft.... If I am working on areas I would like to see sqft.

My current software when I dimension things, the live measurement I see is imperial.

ALL the products we work with are built, sold, are in imperial units... Until my country picks a system and forces suppliers to change... we have to use both.

Thanks for your time. If you need to jump into a drawing i am looking at let me know and I can share with you.

Heber Allred zzTakeoff10d 20h

Thanks for the additional info. It is very helpful. Things are good, and we're excited to be back. We will keep adding features based on the requests coming in on this community. 🙂

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