Imperial to Metric Measurements

[Roxi0112]

I drew a plan in imperial and it needed to be in metric so I added secondary metric measurements. I’ve been asked to remove the imperial and convert the metric to calculate the square meter of the spaces. 
1. Can this be achieved

2. Would someone be so kind to walk me through making these changes. 

thank you so much.

[SHCanada2]

a search for metric room area yields:

 

[DBCooper]

If you started a plan in imperial units, then it will always be stored in imperial units and you can't easily convert it into metric units. 

 

You can modify your dimensions to display all lengths in metric units though.  If you are displaying both metric and imperial, you should just be able to make the primary format metric and turn off the secondary units.

 

If you need to show areas calculated in square meters instead of square feet, you might be able to use macros for doing this.  For example, if you have a polyline with a label, you can use "%area% to display the area of the polyline in square feet and %area.to_sq_m.round(2)%" to display it in square meters rounded to 2 decimal places. 

 

I haven't  figured out a way to make this work on room areas directly though so I usually end up make room polylines instead.

 

[SHCanada2]

1 hour ago, DBCooper said:

haven't  figured out a way to make this work on room areas directly though so I usually end up make room polylines instead.

You can drop a text box in the room with a macro. The macro is in the link above

[DBCooper]

Ok, it looks like you can use one of these in a text box:

%room.internal_area.to_sq_m.round(2)%

%room.standard_area.to_sq_m.round(2)%

and as long as the text box is in a room it should report the correct area in square meters.

 

I was trying to use %room.area.internal.to_sq_m.round(2)% which does not work for some reason even though %room.area.internal% will give you the area in square feet.