Hi!

I started my project with the default meters units but I see that all the info I get from google is always in inches so I wanted to make the switch in houdini. So I changed the units to inches (0.0254) and applied.

The problem is that when I create a box and set it to 20x20x20, it looks like a 20 meters tall building. It's like the unit type does nothing.

What am I missing?

-Olivier

Houdini doesn't use units for anything, aside from the default values in a few dops, such as gravity and stiffness in wire/cloth simulation.

for everything else, 20 is 20 is 20. If your scene is in meters, a 20 unit box is 20 meters; if your scene is in inches, a 20 unit box is 20 inches. There is no implied conversion of any sort.

That sucks!

Thanks for the info.

-Olivier

Have there been any plugins released that deal with this?

It would be ideal if units worked like c4d where you can type 20in-24mm/8ft and it’s all worked out.