Coordinates in Imperial Dimension Unit System

When you are using the imperial dimension unit system, you can type the coordinates in several formats. For example, 5 feet, 10 inches and 3 sixteenths-of-an-inch:

• 5'10 3/16
• 5'10.1875
• 5~10~3
• 70 3/16
• 70.1875

Inch Dimensions without a Delimiter

You can type the coordinates without a delimiter, when the keyword set.coords.insixteenths= 1 has been set in the ../user/SETUP file. In this case, the program reads the given coordinate from right to left. The last two digits represent the sixteenths of an inch, the two following ones inches, and the ones in front of those feet. For example, you can type 5 feet, 10 inches and 3 sixteenths-of-an-inch in the format 51003.

Custom Inch Delimiter

You can also define a custom inch delimiter in the keyword group DRAFT with the keyword inch_delimiter. For example, you can define space as an inch delimiter by adding the following line in the setup file:

inch_delimiter= " "

Now you can type the coordinates in the following format: feet inches sixteenths. For example, 5 feet, 10 inches and 3 sixteenths-of-an-inch: 5 10 3.