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Beau Mitchell

101d 3h

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 zzTakeoff100d 20h

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 100d 20h

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 zzTakeoff100d 1h

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. 🙂

Beau Mitchell 67d 3h

Just checking in to see if this ever made it into ZZ? Its one of the main things I need to work.

Thanks

James Allred zzTakeoff36d 20h

Hi Beau, just wanted to respond to this. This feature has not been added yet. But the feature request is under review by the development team.

Beau Mitchell 29d 1h

Any updates on this? literally the one thing I must have to use your software since most of my work is government.

Thanks

James Allred zzTakeoff22d 21h

No update yet Beau. I know it's important for applications like yours. The development team is working hard to add features as quickly as possible. We will update you here when we know more.

Thank you for your patience.

Luke Olson 8d 15h

hi i am om the same boat as beau. very excited for the potential of this software but being stuck on one unit of measurement and not being able to convert and/or interchange after scaling makes this a real head scratcher

Beau Mitchell 8d 15h

I hear you... I can't use the software as 75% of my drawings come metric.... but 100% of my materials come Imperial. I need to measure in metric and toggle an imperial output. P.S. & OST can do this. I'm surprised this is being held back so most of the world is actually metric with a couple of countries holding out for imperial. Wild

Jim Conley 5d 19h

Another metric vote here. I suppose there's the option of one file for metric, one file for imperial but it's inconvenient.

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