Unit Conversion

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1

I am using the LB Unit Converter. Great tool. I was wondering if there is a way to specify convert to document units automatically without having to manually select it. thanks!

2

Thanks! Which “document units” are you trying to convert? All of the components are smart enough to read the Rhino doc units for any geometry that you connect to a Ladybug or Honeybee component. So you can change the units of the geometry easily by using the Rhino “Units” command and then recomputing the Grasshopper canvas.

There’s also a component that converts any data collection to IP if that’s what you are looking for.

3

I am inputting lengths and distances in both decimal Feet and Decimal inch. I will be using this script on file with document units in both inches and in feet. I was hoping the unit conversion component would be able to auto detect the document units in some way and always convert to that.

4

Thanks for the explanation I think this is a little too specific for us to make an official component for this case but you can make your own pretty easily. This method in the ladybug-rhino package gives you the conversion to meters. So you can always convert a value from Rhino doc units to meters by pasting a few lines of Python into a GHPython component like so:

from ladybug_rhino.config import conversion_to_meters

if x:
    a = x / conversion_to_meters()