Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> That's a good idea. I was thinking this morning of "building" a bird house
> from standard 1x lumber, which over here is 3/4" thick. If I said that one
> AoI unit was 1/100th of an inch, I could have 75 units = 3/4 inches. (That
> may not be practical, but it's the concept, anyway.)
>
> Perhaps, as I get to know the tool better, I'll discover something that's
> already there, but if not, maybe a plug-in could be written to do scale
> conversions. I'm assuming that someday we'll need defined precision. In the
> meantime, convention will do. I suppose that instead of 1 AoI unit = 1/100th
> of an inch, I could think in terms of 1 AoI unit = 1/254th of an inch. The
> arithmetic would be just a bit annoying, but the project would convert to
> metric more easily.
"Transform Object" from the Object AoI menu allows you to scale any object by
any factor.
Yours
Adrian
http://staff.bath.ac.uk/ensab
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