If I use the USCS unit system in Mathcad Prime 2.0, the default length units are ft. All of my drawings are in inches. I have to change every result to inches. This is not very productive.
I agree. Working in structural engineering, volume calculations are always in some form of (linear unit)^3, but Prime defaults to gallons. Given the wide range of calculations that Mathcad is used for, you'll never be able to define a single system of units that works for everyone, but if custom default units are available we just redefine the ones that don't work for us. And it's not just having to manually redefine units for every result (although that is a pretty big pain). Right now I'm working in a sheet that passes a group of properties in a matrix with multiple unit types. This is an improvement over v15 where only a single unit type is allowed in a matrix and I would have had to strip the units out to do this, but now I find when I display the matrix as a whole, I can't change the display units for the individual entries, so I'm stuck with ft and gal as my display units even though those are relatively useless for this application.
The ability for a user to define a custom unit system is something we want to add to a future release of Prime. One thing it would be useful to know is if multiple custom unit systems would be useful - so instead of one 'Custom' system, a user could create/name multiple systems they can then use per worksheet,
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The ability for a user to define a custom unit system is something we want to add to a future release of Prime. One thing it would be useful to know is if multiple custom unit systems would be useful - so instead of one 'Custom' system, a user could create/name multiple systems they can then use per worksheet
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