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Show lengths in meters
Read lengths in meters, centimeters or millimeters instead of feet-inches, and see areas in m2.
Written for TakeoffCraft 0.9. The same help is inside the app: press F1.
What you'll do
Change how TakeoffCraft shows lengths, so a metric job reads in meters, centimeters or millimeters on the sheet, in the status bar and in the panels.
Steps
- Open Settings with the gear in the app bar or ⌘,Ctrl+,, and stay on the TakeoffCraft tab.
- Find Show lengths as and choose Feet-inches, m, cm or mm. Follow Global uses the metric length unit starred in Settings › Global › Units, and feet-inches when none is starred.
- Look at the sheet: lengths in the status bar, the Items list and the panels now read in the unit you chose. Heights, depth, thickness and the levels do too.
- To read item temperatures in degrees C or F, choose Show temperatures as in the same tab.
Notes
- Only the display changes. Quantities, costs and exports are worked out from the exact lengths.
- A bare number typed in a height field is read in the unit shown.
- The 1/16, 1/8 and 1/4 inch choice appears only for feet-inches.
- An area measured with a metric item says m2 on the drawing, in the mark panel and in the table. A linear item with a height also shows its wall area. See Units.