How to select in what units you view information in the Management Console:
We have introduced a new field within Settings -> Localization that will allow the users to select the units in which they wish to VIEW information in their Management Console. At the bottom of the Localization page, there will be a new field called “Units of Measurement”.
The user can select between mm (standard), cm, or inch.
Please note that all backend calculations (Quotation Forms, Worker Scripts, Blanks) will still work in mm.
Where changing units will affect your application.
When the units are changed from the field in the Localization settings the following information will be converted to the selected unit:
Part Analysis and Repair widget
3D viewer bounding box
Features widget (for CNC only)
Blanks table and Select Blank popup (Inventory)
Machine / Material parameters in Settings -> Production Parameters
Part Unit and Application Unit
When you upload a part into AMFG, as always, you must assign a unit to the part via the part widget, the options again are mm, cm, and inch. The default unit assigned when a part is uploaded is mm.
This is the unit that is assigned to the .STL files within AMFG. This unit is separate from the unit of the Management Console application.
A part unit can be set to mm while the application is set to inches. In this scenario, the analysis will run in mm but the MC user will view the information in inches.
If the part unit is changed to 'inch' - the volume, surface area, and bounding box of the part will increase. Therefore the values in the analysis and repair widget, 3D viewer, and features list will change.
Example:
STL file Bounding box on 3D viewer: 50 x 50 x 50
Application unit: Inch
Part unit: mm
Part is assigned units of 50mm x 50mm x 50mm
As the application unit is 'inch', the system will convert the Bounding box to inches and display: 1.97 x 1.97 x 1.97
If the user changes the part unit from mm -> inch, the Part will be assigned a Bounding box of 50 inch x 50 inch x 50 inch.
As the application unit is 'inch', the system will convert the Bounding box to inch and display: 50 inch x 50 inch x 50 inch.
If the application unit is changed to mm, but the part unit remains in inches, the system will convert the bounding box to mm and display 1270mm x 1270mm x 1270mm.