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Working units - Archicad Tutorial

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Working units

- [Instructor] Now, let's dive into Working Units. So, in Working Units, you can find that in Options. And if you go to Project Preferences, and then you'll find Working Units. So, here, you can adjust the units that you use while you're creating, or kind of offering information. So, here I have it set at, into meters, and then square meters, and then cubic meters, and radians, which is not typical necessarily, but it might be for your workflow. And so, let me just show you how that differs from what's on the floor plan, or kind of elevations. So, as you can see here, these are in feet and inches. And if I start to create a line, so if I go over the Polyline Tool, and I start to create a line, you can see here, that this is in meters, and the angles in radians, versus feet. So, let me just go back and show you what happens when I adjust that. So, going back to Options, Project Preferences, and Working Units, and let's change this to feet, let's change it to decimal feet actually. Let's change the angle to degrees, or decimal degrees. And so, as you can see, now, this is in decimal feet and decimal degrees. So, how I leverage this Working Units, is when I'm measuring a building, I'm typically measuring it in decimal feet. And so, for instance, if I was measuring a building. And I'm going to do like 10.3 feet, and 15.5, 4 feet, and 20 feet, which is fine. And let's just go to 45 feet here, and let's just connect it. So, now, even though I've measured it in decimal feet, I can take some dimensions, and it is now also in feet and inches. So, this becomes very useful if I'm measuring a building in a different units, and then I'm also creating the dimensions in a different unit. So, again, if you go to Options, Project Preferences, and then Working Units, you can adjust these. And so, let's just do it one more time, and go back to... Let's try feet and fractional inches. So, we're going to just do this again. So, if I go up here, see, now you can see the distance or the length is in feet and fractional inches. So, let's just make this 15 feet, 4 inches, and this one, 10 feet, 4 inches, And this, 8 inches, 4 feet, six, and then let's just close it off. And if I measure it with my dimension tool, you can see how it's measuring that. And so, again, Working Units is how you use the kind of the calculation method for inputting information, and it doesn't necessarily represent the information that's going to be shown on the sheets itself. So, this is a good way to alter your measurement techniques, but not necessarily effect the actual dimensions that are shown on your sheets.

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