Area = sq inches only?

[sroehr]

Hi--I just started working at a new office, and I've come across an LT issue I've never seen before. Usually when I run an AREA query, the answer comes back w/both sq. inches and sq. feet. On the machines here, however, it only comes back in sq. in. *except* on one machine, and no one knows why. I can't figure out what to edit to give me back my sq. ft. It's getting annoying dividing everything by 144. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Susan

[Dean Saadallah]

UNITS is set to what?

[sroehr]

Aha, you just solved it for me. Previously, I always worked w/units set to architectural; this shop has the units set to fractional. Fractional displays the area in sq. in., when I use architectural, the area offers sq. ft. Thanks!

[Jholt]

Depending on how you do your work, you could write a macro to tell you the area in square ft, regardless of the units setting. The macro could insert text or just return the answer to the command line. The one below inserts text.

^C^Carea;o;\;;text;_c;\;0;$M=$(rtos,$(/,$(getvar,area),144),2,2)" S.F.";

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