Hi, I have my rhino set to decimal inches and I use vbscripts to quickly measure in other units without having to click in the command line, this way I can stay in decimal inches and check any other unit type quickly, however I find that something has changed and my scripts no longer work properly. …

Here’s another example. I’m in decimal and choose fractional in the dialog box the fractional unit doesn’t print to the command line. Seems the distance command is acting differently. Beneath the script is the command history, seems like the distance command gets parsed differently in this vbscript …

Hi Roland, I see this - I tried testing your first example - but I have no idea why… I also tried to test in Python rhinoscriptsyntax, but unfortunately, there is no method rs.UnitDistanceDisplayMode() in rhinoscriptsyntax. The Help indicates there should be, but this is probably because the rhino…

Hi @3dsynergy , I’m not fluent enough in RhinoScript to tell you why your script fails, but I found the corresponding Rhinocommon methods and made a quick python script which should do the functionality you are describing: [image] Give it a try and tell me if it works for your: distanceDisplayMu…

Hi Roland, yes, this works fine in SR18 (haven’t upgraded to SR19 yet…) So something got messed up…

Thanks for the script Lando, I hope McNeel can fix this it’s been working I think since v3. RM

Hi Mitch, Jarek, Thanks to both of you for taking look and for confirming it. Hope it’s and easy fix for McNeel I have many more unit scripts that I use especially my custom unit scripts. RM

Hello - thanks, I see that - https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-55449 -Pascal

Thank you for the fast fix I waited for the official release but am glad you serviced this so quickly. RM

Unit conversion broke changed? Vb scripts no longer work

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brian (Brian Gillespie) November 6, 2019, 5:41pm 9

RH-55449 is fixed in the latest Service Release Candidate

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Unit conversion broke changed? Vb scripts no longer work

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