From the course: ARCHICAD 23 Essential Training

Working units - Archicad Tutorial

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Working units

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- [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 authoring 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 work flow. 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 to the "Polyline Tool," and insert 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. And, 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 unit, 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 point five four feet, and 20 feet, which is fine, and I'll just go to 45 feet here, and lets just connect it. So now, even though I 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 just going to 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, four inches. And this one 10 feet, four inches. And this eight feet, eight inches. Four feet, six. And then 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, kind of the calculation method for inputting information, and it doesn't necessarily represent, the information that's going to be shown on the sheet itself. So this is a good way to alter your measurement techniques, and not necessarily affect the actual dimensions, that are show in your sheet.

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