We have a few places to enter length, like draw line (angle, perpendicular, parallel, etc.), and the common command input for coordinates. They are handled differently.
Now, focus on the length itself, we generally allow evaluating of math notations. That means the natural way of interpretation of 14'-2 5/8" as 14 feet minus 2 and 5/8 ".
It's conceivable to disable interpreting of - as the minus sign for the architecture format, but the current design doesn't consider length format or even units during evaluation.
A quick fix is possible to support 14'2 5/8" or 14'2"5/8
Gorf wrote
I think I am stumped by something stupid here. In my document preferences I have the main drawing unit set to inches. And my Length Format set to architectural. I've never really worked with LibreCAD in this mode but I now have some need to express fractional inches. However for things like horizontal and vertical lines, the length input in the tool bar doesn't seem to want to accept architectural length input like 14'-2 5/8".
10 years ago someone
apparently figured out a small code fix here, and 3 years ago a goofy workaround
was suggested that I guess works.
Is this still the norm or have I missed a change?
Thanks!