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Lightwave makes this so easy. You select an object and click on this tool. It shows you the size on each axis with the option to change each axis individually.
I rather like a room that's not to scale, but aimed at camera placement. Gives more room to turn around and not bump into walls everytime you move (PS: removing walls is not a great option, screws up the lighting).
There's measure metrics for that, or you can use a primitive scaled as a mesuring rod, or one of the various measuring rods freebies. IIRC there was also a freebie script to do that available somewhere.
2.54 = 1 inch in DS
If you set a prop at 2.54 on the x-axis, you've offset it 1 inch from center in the DS world. A 6ft character has the top of his head hitting.182.88 on the Y-axis. It probably helps more if you're modelling in Hexagon where those values are adjusted by 10%. ie. 1 inch = .254.
...or use metric like the rest of the world
Even England is slowly releasing its death grip on English units. My kids don't know what a furlong, barrel, peck, bushel, tun, rod/pole/perch or chain are. They are also foolish enough to think gills are parts of fish, not units of volume. They think hands and feet are parts of people rather than measurements; Stones are small lumps of rock, not a unit of weight (14lb to the non-British english unit users). They also think that a slug is a repulsive squidge when you tread on it, not the unit of mass that accelerates at 1 ft/sec^2 when a force of 1lb is applied to it. They also think a BTU is probably a K-Pop band rather than a measurement heat. I have been peripherally aware of the existence of units like a Cord, Rick, Ell, Span, Finger, Rood, Bovate, Hide,Puncheon, Butt, Firkin, Pottle without knowing what they are. If you need further 'English' units to convince you of the oddity of the system look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_units
When you think about it, english units are really silly & should be ditched for something that was thought through, as opposed to growing up piecemeal over millennia. I have used English Units for engineering purposes in my working life, when playing with aeroplanes, but I do find it easier to work in metric. When working out item masses (needed for stress analysis), densities are usually given in lb/ft^3, but you need them for consistency to be in lb/in^3, and dividing by 1728 is not something I can do in my head, but kg/m^3 can easily be divided into kg/mm^3 simply by dividing by 10^9.
When mum and dad retired, they sold their house which was a large georgian property. The rooms were something around 14 feet high; the hall was the full 3 stories the property held. The stairs were different than most homes in that the were slightly lower with a deeper step - they were a joy to climb.
So variation occurs, but providing variation and not to scale are different.
The room might look like it isn't to scale, but all the components in it might be; that could well be a deliberate design decission; alternatively, the room could be about right but some of the components in it are just wrong. That is one example of what the OP means - or is my interpretation. :)
Indeed - subdivisions of ten are much simpler; I was brought up imperial, but mostly use metric. Driving is the only thing really.
I think you get my meaning. In the US the "typical" home is built with 8 ft high walls. This is how the majority of new residential construction is built. If one visits a lumber yard they will see raw materials in lengths and sizes with this in mind. In no way however do I expect that every building or house in the world is or was built that way. I lived in a farmhouse in Wales (a lot of years ago) that didn't fit the current practices.
What I object to is furniture that makes adults look like children and rooms (which are meant to be typical contemporary rooms) where the door knobs are are eye level. I posted an example several posts back. If I pick a model in the store that is in the category of historical or fantasy, etc. then I don't expect contemporary appearance.
Thank you and you're welcome !
Thank you, thank you and thank you. You're welcome as well! :)
I once lived in a New Hampshire house that was built in 1765. You could easily see how the construction was related to materials at hand. The back rooms had floorboards that were a foot wide (deep?!). Much of the construction was handled with huge pegs instead of nails. The floorboards of the front rooms were more modern, thinner. Maybe someone replaced the front room floorboards with smaller ones sometime after the house was built. The back staircase had steeper steps, which were also smaller, from front to back. The front staircase was grander, had a nice railing, and faced the large front door. It appears most people rarely used the "grand entrance," but entered through the side door. That lead into a small entryway. The dining room was on the right, and living room on the left.