topic Re: Square Yard Unit of Measure in Collaboration with other software

Square Yard Unit of Measure

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:28:23 GMT

In Options>Project Preferences>Dimensions or Calculation Units, there is not an option for settings to calculate or display Square Yards.

In the US it is a very common way of referring to interior floor finish areas, asphalt paving areas, and landscaping areas units of measure.

Is there a way to set this unit of measure in dimensions for area or as a calculation unit?

Re: Square Yard Unit of Measure

Rick Thompson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:46:48 GMT

I'm not at the right computer (no AC on this one), but you should be able to do that under the data base units. I pull off concrete in cu. yds. etc, but you would need to set up a property object referencing the data base quantities. I think there are many data base references to carpet, asphalt etc that you can easily use to extract the info from. There may be an easier way too, but this is how I have been doing it for material list.

If this is helpful, but not helpful enough, I can check it out when I get to the right computer.

Re: Square Yard Unit of Measure

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:56:46 GMT

I had discovered that it is possible to set up a calculation via a data set but i was hoping that it was be possible to create a basic option for a for Square Yards directly in the DIMENSION or CALCULATION UNITS. I'll go ahead and make this a wish.

Re: Square Yard Unit of Measure

Steve Jepson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:21:29 GMT

46cruisair wrote:
I had discovered that it is possible to set up a calculation via a data set but i was hoping that it was be possible to create a basic option for a for Square Yards directly in the DIMENSION or CALCULATION UNITS. I'll go ahead and make this a wish.

You can. Like this.

Re: Square Yard Unit of Measure

Steve Jepson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:27:21 GMT

schedules are in cubic yards as determined by the calculation units setting.

Re: Square Yard Unit of Measure

Link — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:04:56 GMT

Just a slight difference between square and cubic there mate.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Square Yard Unit of Measure

Steve Jepson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:08:26 GMT

Yes. I did not read the post well enough to see that.