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Strange Calculated Value

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:28:10 GMT

Up until now I have never had to calculate over a 1000 ft of wall, but now that I need to, it does not seem to work. If I draw a 25000 ft long wall and calculate its length in the interactive schedule, I get: 2500,00'-0.00'. I should get: 25,000.00'. Is this is a bug? This happens whenever the number passes 1000.

Does the same thing in v12 and v11.

Help!!!

Ben Ferrer
Turner Construction - NY

Re: Strange Calculated Value

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:41:40 GMT

So I must be the only one who draws over a 1,000 ft of something and schedules it?

Can someone at least verify my insanity and tell me you see the same thing?

Ben

Re: Strange Calculated Value

vistasp — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:37:58 GMT

Bug. It's probably something to do with the fact that the underlying units in AC are metric and, when converting to feet, things get screwy.

In Options > Project Preferences > Calculation Units, set decimals for the length parameter to 0 and see if it works. Not a great solution but better than something wildly inaccurate! Area and Volume are not affected by this.

AC 10 doesn't have this problem. Sigh.

Re: Strange Calculated Value

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:37:37 GMT

Ben,

You have found a bug in the schedule display for any wall longer than 9,999 feet. Up to that length, the value is displayed properly. 10,000 feet displays as "1,000" whereas 1,000 feet displays as "1000" (no comma).

The lengths reported in the schedule use the units specified under Options > Project Preferences > Calculation Units.

The US out-of-the-box template uses inches and 2 digits after the decimal point. Changing to decimal feet will address part of your question.

Selecting the wall and using Window > Palettes > Element Information and selecting the length will show the correct length.

I've just reported this.

Karl

Re: Strange Calculated Value

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:54:39 GMT

Thanks guys. I can deal with it as long as I know it is a bug and not me

Karl, thank you for sending it in.

Ben

Re: Strange Calculated Value

vistasp — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:17:57 GMT

Karl wrote:
You have found a bug in the schedule display for any wall longer than 9,999 feet.Karl

Karl, should that be 999 feet? I tried it with an 1,100 foot wall and got the same kind of error.

I must say, Ben, I've never designed anything that has a single wall of such length! 😉

Re: Strange Calculated Value

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:02:31 GMT

vistasp wrote:
Karl wrote:
You have found a bug in the schedule display for any wall longer than 9,999 feet.Karl
Karl, should that be 999 feet? I tried it with an 1,100 foot wall and got the same kind of error.

I must say, Ben, I've never designed anything that has a single wall of such length! 😉

I had decimal places set to zero and I'm guessing that you have it set to two. When GS Support confirmed this bug this morning (fast!), they noted that the behavior also depends on how many digits are displayed after the decimal point.

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Strange Calculated Value

vistasp — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:11:21 GMT

Karl wrote:
I had decimal places set to zero and I'm guessing that you have it set to two. When GS Support confirmed this bug this morning (fast!), they noted that the behavior also depends on how many digits are displayed after the decimal point.

Thanks Karl. And I thought I'd given Ben a work-around for his problem by telling him to remove the decimals.

Hopefully a fix will find it's way into the next update. Apparently the bug crept in with v.11 because it works fine in 10 (at least with 2 decimal places).