Unit Settings (Tools menu)

PLUS 2D supports both metric as well as English units. You can change the units at any time. Go to Tools>Unit settings.

Lengths in  Select the units to specify lengths.
Area in Select the units to specify areas.
Decimal Precision Precision for units displayed in as decimal.
Display Precision Precision for fractional units. This combo box is only enabled if you have selected fractional inch units.

For Units in fractional Inches the units can be input in following ways (say 1/32 is the display precision).

Consider you have to input 6.25 inches. It can be input in one of the following ways

6.25 or 6.25” or 6 1/4 or 6 1/4" or 6 8/32 or 6 8

Display fraction in Reduced form checkbox will help you to show the numbers in compact reduced form, say for example 4/16 will be displayed as 1/4 or a decimal number like 3.4500 will be displayed as 3.45.

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