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[Problem] MKS unit system is broken

Open Vanuan opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Problem description

Toggle grid view. Go to preferences -> General Change Unit system to MKS. Hit apply. Update the view.

Expected: grid changes from millimeters to meters. Actual: grid remains the same

Full version info

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OS: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (ubuntu:GNOME/ubuntu)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.21.2.33771 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.21.2)
Hash: b9bfa5c5507506e4515816414cd27f4851d00489
Python 3.10.13, Qt 5.15.8, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.2.6, OCC 7.6.3
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
Installed mods: 
  * BIM 2021.12.0
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Subproject(s) affected?

None

Anything else?

The "Building Euro" unit system works though.

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Vanuan avatar Feb 15 '24 22:02 Vanuan

Might be a duplicate of https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issues/7395 and https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issues/5906

Vanuan avatar Feb 15 '24 22:02 Vanuan

Please try to be more specific. Is this about the Draft grid? What is the original unit system? Why should the grid change when the unit system changes? Changing the distance between grid lines then seems a strange idea to me.

It may be better to start a forum discussion first.

Roy-043 avatar Feb 15 '24 22:02 Roy-043

@Vanuan could you add more info?

maxwxyz avatar Mar 17 '24 15:03 maxwxyz

Closing as duplicate.

luzpaz avatar Apr 01 '24 15:04 luzpaz