topic Re: Expression Formula in Collaboration with other software

Expression Formula / Units display

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 14:37:38 GMT

Hi all,

I am very new at writing expressions so forgive me on my newbie question.

I am trying to write some expressions for some schedules. I would like to display the size of a "post" as one field so I would like it to read 8X8 for the size but it is reporting a 0'-8" x 0'-8". is there a work around to remove the 0'-?

Thank you for your time.

John

Re: Expression Formula

Eli Chiasson — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 18:10:42 GMT

Hi John,

Under Project Preferences > Dimensions you should see this:

Select the option I've highlighted to get the result you're looking for. You'll need to save this as a standard and apply it to the View of the schedule you create, I believe.

Eli

Re: Expression Formula

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:51:36 GMT

Hi Eli,

Thank you for responding. I currently have that setting chosen and that does not seem to do anything to the schedules.

Re: Expression Formula

Eli Chiasson — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 17:04:57 GMT

It seems Expressions take their settings from Project Preferences > Calculation Units and Rules

I found one thread that brought up the difficulty of only being able to control Schedule units though a global project setting, but it seems that's the current state. That said, I was still able to get the result you want:

This is the Expression I used:

CONCAT ( STRCALCUNIT (Core Width), " X ", STRCALCUNIT (Core Depth/Diameter))

Re: Expression Formula

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 19:53:50 GMT

That's it! Thank you very much for your time.