Posted by LordOfBikes on Nov 13, 2013; 4:19pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Entering-architectural-dimensions-on-command-line-tp5709151p5709183.html

Hi Tyrel,

your reading of the source codes was correct, you can't enter imperial units this way on the command line.
There is a feature request for this, but this will surely not be implemented into the shortly comming 2.0 release.

But you can enter values with fractional digits. When you change the units in drawing preferences to feet, you can enter 43.75 instead of 43'9" for absolute values referred to the origin at 0,0 or @43.75 for a relative value referred to the relative zero point.

No matter how, feet or inch, you have to convert the feet/inch values into their floating point equivalent to use them on the command line.

For dimension lines you can use the method Claus explained.

Sorry, for not having better news.

Armin