Posted by Tango on Mar 06, 2016; 6:38am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Units-In-Measurements-tp5713167p5713184.html

I'm running into an issue on this.  While I get the linear distance in feet, the area of an object comes up as 12 times what it should be.  For example, I drew a box 5' x 5'  (actually 5'-1/32" square, since, at the zoom level I was at, that was the closest it came to 5').

Then I measured a line and it came out to 5'-1/32", which is correct.  But when I measured the area, and I was a bit off on one corner, I got this:

Circumference: 20'-1/2"
Area: 301'-3"

The 20'-1/2" seems right, since I was a bit off on one corner (instead of 20'-1/8"), but the area should be approximately 25'.  I could understand being off by a factor of 144, since it's 144 square inches in a square foot.