Justin Montoya Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) It would be amazing if FormZ could auto translate other working units. Example- Project is in Feet and Inches - However I need to add metric sized items. If I could type in '55mm' and have it automatically convert to Inches that would be great. Possible? Thank you! Edited December 7, 2019 by Justin Montoya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santa Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Can't see why not. Although it's impossible to work in two different world units at the same time, all that would be needed is an automatic custom scale option. Once set, it would then resize an object appropriately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 +5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Montoya Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 Furthermore, what if we could input simple equations? For Example: 11' - 83" ... to automatically generate a 49" input. I realize there might need to be some sort of container added like (11') - (83"), but it would keep us from constantly going back to the desk calculator. WAIT a sec... What if there was a calculator built into FormZ that you could pop out of the numerical Input boxes!? That would be AMAZING! It could handle all the conversion from metric to standard as well. Possible?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZTEK Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 1+ In addition... why not also improve all the measurement tools in the Measure palette with drop-down menus with the different units that formZ offers? Currently, some of them offer this possibility, for example, Mass Properties and Measure Quantities (partially). It would be very useful and I don't think it's difficult to add. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Concentric Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 I have suggested a calculator before... needs to be a scientific one. Too, needs to output its results to to the active field. at least as an option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Montoya Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 Hi Chris, Since you have experience with scripting, is this something we could implement with the new Python available in v9 using an already developed calculator/converter like this? https://github.com/Stephen150/Simple-Scientific-Calculator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 I will look into it. As I understand, the interface part would have to be re-written. As, again my understanding, fZ will not use outside libraries for it's script interfaces. the tinter in import tkinter as tk is an interface library. without getting the opportunity to dig deep at this time, I suspect this will be the hardest part. (hopefully an interface builder will come someday) in 6, even though I could build interfaces, I never really understood how it worked. It may be better to use fZ's built in math library too. Keep things smaller. Will probably tackle other stuff first, get my head around things. But yea! ¢£ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 BTW, if ADS has or allows a python console, this would work as a calculator. albeit no GUI. ¢£ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setz Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 +1 math operations and alternate working unit input in data fields Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariel Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 I have actually developed a calculator palette for formz v 6.x log time ago.... but at one point i droped it because formz ui couldn't figure out that i am typing inside the calculator palette and kept poping key shortcuts actions//// i have the old files somewhere.. if someone wants to take over this and try adjusting to new versions. email me directly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yon Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 (edited) Just being able to type in the unit makes so much sense. If you are adding a model that is in metric, you don't need to convert to fix the scale. 120mm, done. Edited January 19 by Yon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yon Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 This maybe easier to implement. A toggle with desired scale unit, or percentage. No typos then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 @Yon Not within a number box, but with the form•Z Pro 10 Assistant, you can convert to current project units within form•Z, then paste. Type <SPACEBAR> 120mm <ENTER> But yes, we understand what users are looking for and will look into implementing conversions, etc. within number boxes. Des and ZTEK 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Montoya Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 Thanks Tech, The assistant is neat, and using to convert units is handy! I tried Copying the converted units and then Pasting it into a number input box and unfortunately it does not seem to work. Is this to be expected? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZTEK Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) Excellent, and it would be great to select the result with the Tab key first and then copy it with Cmd/Ctrl-C without using the mouse. I also add that I recently realized that when doing numerical input, you can use slash (key) as an operator to do any simple division, which makes sense for working on fractions in the US. So you can divide any distance by any number you want, which is very handy. I wish you could do the same with the other basic operations of addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Edited January 26 by ZTEK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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