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Units setting mm to Inches

Bamboo'd Gear
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Bambood Gear
Portland, OR United States
By Bamboo'd Gear | 5:10 AM EDT, Sun August 19, 2012
BikeCAD How To Forum

To save me a conversion step, in the frame editing interface it is in mm; but, in the frame view I showed the dimensions in Inches. Can the editing frame interface be set in inches?
Thanks!
Alexi

Brent
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www.bikecad.ca
Ottawa, ON Canada

Brent

13 years 3 months ago

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Units in inches

As you've noticed, you can switch the units on the dimensions displayed on the screen in the Dimensions dialog box. You can select either inches or millimeters.

However, when it comes to inputting dimensions, you can currently only input dimensions in millimeters. The only exception is entering body dimensions in the fit advisor. Those dimensions can be entered in either millimeters or inches.

For all other dimensions in BikeCAD, to save yourself a bit of hassle, be aware that you can enter dimensions in the form of mathematical expressions. If you want to input 18.5", rather than converting that on your own to 469.9mm and entering that, you could simply type in: 18.5*25.4 .

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