Manage units of measures
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This dialog allows you to set the preferred units of measure for lengths, angles, areas and volumes; and to set how many decimal digits should appear in Reconstructor®. All available decimal places are used for calculations. |
Presets
On the top of the above dialog, you can activate some presets:
- SI (International system of units) will set meters as length unit, square meters as area unit and cubic meters as volume unit.
- Imperial system of units will set inches, square inches and cubic inches as length, area, and volume unit respectively. This button features a popup menu that gives you other two options: to use feet and to use yards as basic measure unit for length, area and volume.
- U.S. customary units will set the U.S. survey feet as predefined length unit, the U.S. square survey feet as area unit, and the U.S. liquid gallons as volume unit.
Selecting the units of measure
In the middle box of the dialog, you find three controls to select the length unit, the area unit, and the volume unit to be used across all Reconstructor dialogs, visualized data and outputs.
You can select among a long list of measure units, belonging to the international system of units, to the British Imperial system, and to the United States customary units, used for survey. Please see below the complete table of the units of measure supported by Reconstructor.
Selecting the data's decimal precision
The last option in the dialog allows you to select how many decimals to visualize after the comma for each output value in Reconstructor®. This gives you a lot of flexibility to format your output reports according to the precision you desire, but also it asks from you that you know the precision limitations of your sensor in the particular dataset you are working on.
Units of measure supported by Reconstructor®
Length units
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Name |
Suffix |
Amount in meters |
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Meters |
m |
1 |
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Centimeters |
cm |
0.01 |
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Millimeters |
mm |
0.001 |
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Kilometers |
km |
1000 |
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Thousandths of an inch |
th |
0.0000254 |
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Inches |
in |
0.0254 |
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Feet |
ft |
0.3048 |
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Yards |
yd |
0.9144 |
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Chains |
ch |
20.1168 |
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Furlongs |
fur |
201.168 |
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U.S. links |
li |
0.2012 |
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U.S. survey feet |
US ft |
0.30480061 |
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U.S. rods |
rd |
5.02921 |
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U.S. chains |
US ch |
20.11684 |
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U.S. furlongs |
US fur |
201.1684 |
Area units
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Name |
Suffix |
Amount in square meters |
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Square meters |
m² |
1 |
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Square centimeters |
cm² |
0.0001 |
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Hectares |
ha |
10000 |
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Square kilometers |
km² |
1000000 |
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Square inches |
in² |
0.00064516 |
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Square feet |
ft² |
0.09290304 |
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Square yards |
yd² |
0.83612736 |
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Acres |
acres |
4046.8564224 |
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U.S. square survey feet |
US ft² |
0.09290341 |
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U.S. acres |
US acres |
4046.873 |
Volume units
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Name |
Suffix |
Amount in cubic meters |
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Cubic meters |
m³ |
1 |
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Cubic centimeters |
cm³ |
0.000001 |
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Cubic millimeters |
mm³ |
0.000000001 |
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Liters |
l |
0.001 |
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Cubic inches |
in³ |
0.000016387064 |
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Cubic feet |
ft³ |
0.028316846592 |
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Cubic yards |
yd³ |
0.764554857984 |
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Gallons |
gal |
0.00454609 |
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U.S. cubic feet |
US ft³ |
0.02831685 |
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U.S cubic yards |
US yd³ |
0.764554857984 |
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U.S. acre feet |
US acre feet |
1233.482 |
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U.S. liquid gallons |
US fl gal |
0.003785411784 |
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U.S. liquid barrels |
US fl bbl |
0.119240471196 |
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U.S. dry gallons |
US dry gal |
0.004404884 |
Angular units
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Name |
Suffix |
Amount in decimal degree |
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Decimal degree |
° |
1 |
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Radians |
rad |
180 / Π |