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Hammer Units Conversion Tool

This handy little piece of software seamlessly integrates into Hammer and allows on-the-fly conversion of Source Engine units into metric or imperial units. It turns Hammer's rarely-used left-side of the status bar into a non-obtrusive real-time converter, showing the dimensions of an object in chosen units as you work on it, be it creating or resizing it in one of the 2D views. It proves incredibly useful when creating life-sized environments. The conversion ratios come from data available on the VDC (Valve Developer Community) wiki. As is explained, architecture (as well as props), human character models and 3D Skyboxes all work on different scales. Using this tool, you can easily switch between world-scale, human-scale and skybox-scale all within Hammer.

This tool is available here :

http://www.moddb.com/engines/source/downloads/hammer-units-conversion-tool