Inputing feet and inches using different keys?

[Aaron2004]

Hello,

 

I'm trying to shave seconds off of my AutoCAD workflow and feel like spending time to go from the number pad to enter the ' and " signs gets too repetative and makes my hands move to far away from their normal shortcut keys. Back when I used to use softplan, I was able to use the plus and minus signs on the number pad as feet and inches, making it extremely fast to enter dimensions.

 

Is is possible to make a script for this if one doesn't exist already?

 

Thanks,

 

Aaron

[vizwhiz]

convert everything into inches (only)

 

12' 4-3/4" = 148.75

 

just learn The 1 foot increments, + The inch(es) additional.

it will help you save Time, especially if you use a mouse left-handed

 

Then your right hand can enter The numeric input on The keyboards number pad.

 

This is very fast

 

also you can program your autocad command aliases as numbers