How to Automatically convert to meters when entering feet?

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Hello all! 
 
 Have a Great of new year? 
 
 When i performing project, always need to calculate Feet to meter. 
 because *Need to fix meter unit of master Model(Owner don't want to change to feet) 
 
 So When i drawing line in Microstation distance(Inset 3.28 feet), is it possible to Automatically convert to 1Meter?

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mlm · Accepted Answer

Hi Lorys,just try it out, it does not hurt at all 
 
 Lorys said: act as if they were unitless ( like acad) 
 In my view on the contrary: You have full fidelity with units. In acad one seems to work with just one assumed or agreed? unit. 
 As different crafts like to "prefer" different units you can switch between units depending on the detail or zoom level. You may want to open and pin the "Drawing Scale" to - at least for a while - have the current dimension setting in the corner of your eye. 
 
 Lorys said: looking over his shoulder 
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mlm · Answer

In microstation you can always switch between units on the fly. (when you do "save settings" the unit setting will be kept) 
 Either with imperial or metric you might want to sometimes switch between units inside of a unit system depending on the extension of your objects at hand (miles/yards/feet/inch or kilometers/meters/centimeters/mm) microStation knows the relationships between any units and lets you easily switch them any time. 
 Select the "on the fly" unit settings in Drawing|Utilities>Drawing Scale 
 
 You can have dimensioning with a secondary unit (see dimension settings) 
 Why not work in meters in the first place? If the customer/owner wants it) 
 You can activate the rarer units (e.g. Lightyears or Fathoms) in the unit definitions file C:\Program Files\Bentley\...\...\Default\Data\units.def" Once I even needed some not included units (Nautical Miles "nm" for an Airport) and was able to add it there.

Lorys · Answer

you may be able to create a keyin action string ( activated by an F Key) that enters the " 0.3048 * "and waits for you to keyin the distance or at least you can copy paste from clip board .. FYI I have not tried this yet but in theory it should work .. look up action strings in help to work it out...should save you from typing in over and over the multiply by 0.3048 factor

jihoon yu · Answer

Thank you for the great suggestion! I think this function very useful for control units.

How to Automatically convert to meters when entering feet?

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