Dimension Input "Bug" + Suggestion

"Bug":

When inputting dimensions in imperial units, CAESAR tends to replace the input with a particular text.

E.G. -1-7.6875 becomes "-1 ft. 7.688 in"

In some, but not all, dialogue fields where this is the case, you can manually edit these fields, with the auto-populated text intact, such as the DX/DY/DZ on the classic piping input.

One place where this is not the case, would be the "break at element" dialogue. It converts this to 1.000 in.

Suggestion:

It would be beneficial to extend the input capabilities to incorporate fractional inches expressed as fractions.

E.G. "-1-7 11/16" or even "-1-7-11/16" becomes "-1 ft. 7.688 in." This would be a time saving feature as I end up having to verify these numbers with a chart on the wall or typing into wincalc.

This is an interesting idea. It will not make Version 12 (which we hope to release by the end of April).

I would like to point out we can currently select and copy the dimensions from the "measure" dialogue, but we can't meaningfully paste it back into CAESAR.

Whether this means that the dialogue should read "-1 ft. 7.688 in." instead of "-1' 7.688"" or that "-1' 7.688" should also be able to be read as an input for CAESAR, I leave that for others to decide.

This would be useful in modeling piping circuits by hand such that I have to connect them up in a specific pathway, I might need to collect specific components of measurements between 2 nodes that aren't attached to each other by an element.