Questions about units

ron_moreland

I've more or less finished my first real feature script. Thanks for all the help! I had excellent help from the forum. I have questions about values with units.

I think everything in the database has meters as the length unit. Other units are assigned as conversions from meters. When I print values via "debug()", the values are in meters. Can I convert them at print time to inches?

How do you change numbers to values with units and back?

NeilCooke

Just multiply it by the units. e.g. Foo * inch

if it is a complex debug message with lots of outputs then this probably won’t work. 

konstantin_shiriazdanov

println(length/inch~" inches") if you are sure that length variable contains the value with units of length type

NeilCooke

Just multiply it by the units. e.g. Foo * inch

if it is a complex debug message with lots of outputs then this probably won’t work. 

ron_moreland

Sometimes "Foo * inch" will convert the value to an area. Why?

owen_sparks

ron_moreland said:

Sometimes "Foo * inch" will convert the value to an area. Why?

Presumably in this case your foo already had units, so units squared = area?

Owen S.