topic Re: 2'-12" in Interactive Schedule? in Libraries & objects

2'-12" in Interactive Schedule?

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:52:39 GMT

I have a simple 2d library part that consist of (among other things) a fill and a length. Many of these objects are placed, at different lengths and a schedule is created from them. When the length (NB=A) is input directly eg. 3'-0" then the piece seems to schedule fine. Other times the piece is stretched manually to meet up with another. I don't know if it is the manual stretching that causes the issue as I haven't been able to purposely replicate the problem but in a few cases since I scripted it the schedule has shown eg. 2'-12" instead of 3'-0". The text shown by the object shows 3'-0" in plan but IS shows it differently. The text script is as follows:

TEXT2 (A-RIGHT_END_DIST), LH/2, STR ("% 0.16ffi ", NB)

I am completely baffled by this! Any thoughts?

Thanks, Doug

Re: 2'-12" in Interactive Schedule?

Barry Kelly — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 02:09:50 GMT

I think it is just a rounding issue in the schedules.
I have seen the same with roof slopes (i.e. 25° 60') - in all versions so far.
I am not sure there is much you can do about it other than adjust the calculation decimal precision.
But that may affect the look of all the data in your schedules.

Barry.

Re: 2'-12" in Interactive Schedule?

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 02:34:47 GMT

Thanks for the reply Barry. (sorry so late getting back). I had a feeling it was the accuracy but was hoping one of you gurus would prove me wrong. I send the schedules to Excel and they are printed and reviewed before finalized so it isn't a big deal. I'll probably set up Excel to prompt when this situation occurs. It's pretty rare so it's basically a minor annoyance.

Thanks again,

Doug