Hi, I was wondering if anyone has figured a way to make C6 Pro use inches instead of feet as it's default unit of measure.  It drives me nuts because I am used to working in inches scale, and I hate having to manually enter inches values in all modeling panes.  It never saves the alteration and thinks you are still wanting to use feet.  If there isn't a way to do it, I would humbly suggest that Daz may want to put that option in.  Using inches is just easier.  For instance setting something to .25 inches now has to be like 3 inches which drives me mad.  There is also no way listed to do this that I have been able to find in the manual.I like using the decimal values, so please put it back the way it was.

Second thing.  Is anyone having this problem besides me.  You go to import a poser figure into C6 pro.  It doesn't matter which runtime you use Poser 6 or 7.  It's the same problem.  The character loads, then after it reaches 100 percent.  You see the new object trees for the poser figure in the objects/Instances panel, but it never shows up in the C6 scene, and your Carrara freezes up.  You end up using task manager to kill the process or it will sit there frozen forever in spite of the fact that task manager says it is still running.

Any help appreciated.

"The character loads, then after it reaches 100 percent." at this point I usually go and check mail or something. it's necessary to wait a few minutes after that, for the loading to finish. AFAICT the 6.02 update makes it less stable, if that's any help. I hope they don't expect us to download another 60 MB update every week.

Hi SN, Under the Interface tab in the scene settings (properties tray) you can change the units to whatever you'd like. You can also adjust how many decimal places are shown to avoid the round-up display issues. Regarding waiting for a figure to load, at least on my system it takes about as long for Carrara to load a figure as it does for Poser. I wish it was faster. However, once in Carrara everything else goes faster or at least more smoothly. Mark

Thanks for the info, I never thought to look there for it.  Mine will sit there for hours.  I actually tried to import one and let it go overnight and it was still just sitting there in the morning.

Quote - Hi SN, Under the Interface tab in the scene settings (properties tray) you can change the units to whatever you'd like. You can also adjust how many decimal places are shown to avoid the round-up display issues. Regarding waiting for a figure to load, at least on my system it takes about as long for Carrara to load a figure as it does for Poser. I wish it was faster. However, once in Carrara everything else goes faster or at least more smoothly. Mark

Hi SN -

I have no idea if this will work, but I thought I should suggest it - it has made a difference on my system, but for other situations.

Try changing your interactive renderer settings to software instead of openGL - it made things run better for me, but like I said, I have no idea if it will make a difference for your issue. Doesn't hurt to try though :)  Good luck !