AC14 volumn Calc.

[Rick Taron]

Can someone please verify for me that the volume calculation for slabs roofs or columns works?
I can't get the schedule to cough up a volume.

Looks like a bug.

[Steve Jepson]

Yes. It works for me. But not with out fooling with it.
I had the same problem as you are showing. The fix is in display settings, view settings, etc..

[Rick Taron]

Thanks Steve,
that picture helped.
I unchecked all the settings under calculation rules and then I switched the preferences to cubic yards.

then it displayed properly after refreshing.

Going back, I still couldn't get the thing to read and calculate cubic feet or inches.

Can you get cubic feet?

[Steve Jepson]

No. I can't make it work.
Makes me mad too.

The problem is because you can drag the schedule directly into the Layout or you can choose to save it as a view and place in Layout in one step.

The schedules placed without being a view are where the problem is.

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the up side is that you can display the same schedule with different units as seen here. cu.ft. and cu.yds.


The results you can get are wild.


By null at 2010-07-20

[Erika Epstein]

Check your settings for Options>Project Preferences>Calculation Unites and Rules.

The default setting here is inches for linear dimensions and feet for area and volume calculations.

Note the Extra Accuracy setting along with how many decimals are set.


These tolerance settings are saved with views.

HTH

[Rick Taron]

Erika,

Can you get Cubic feet in a schedule?

I fussed with all that stuff to no avail.

[Erika Epstein]

Yes,
See screen shot
Or is it something else you are after?
Click on the down arrow at the right of each unit type for options

[Steve Jepson]

Erika wrote:
Yes,
See screen shot
Or is it something else you are after?
Click on the down arrow at the right of each unit type for options

look at your results Erika. total cuft =0.00 ???

It's not working.

[Steve Jepson]

Test with several slabs of a volume you know.
3'x3'x3' 27 cuft. 1 cuyd.

Try chaning uints while in the schedule and then while in the Layout, and then while in the View.

It is all a mess for several reasons. 1 being that to change units is done by use of a tab that called Project Preferences as opposed to Scheduel Preferences or View Unit Preferences, etc...There needs to be a way to change units per individual schedule only, and it needs to be clear when that is what your doing.

Units is a problem for schedules. There needs to be many more units, the ability to define our own units, and control how and what units are displayed in each schedule. Units that are industry specific like board feet, chains, sections, acres, etc...

[Erika Epstein]

I increased the precision, but the numbers are wrong.
The slabs are as noted.
When I checked to see if the volumes were metric, they were closer, but off for example 1 cu ft. should = .028316 cu meters not .0026.

It is that this long outstanding bug is still here in 14.
How can we possibly provide correct data when unit types are wrong and and errors produce imprecise data???

[Greg Kmethy]

I can confirm that the cubic feet and cubic inches calculation units give bad results in volume calculations in ArchiCAD 14. (ArchiCAD 13 gets it right). Cubic yards and gallons are OK. The element information palette is also reliable to read volumes in cubic feet/inches. I have forwarded this bug to the development.

Greg