Calculation Units in AC15

[Anonymous]

I can't get the calculation units to change in AC15. I reset it in the dialog but get no change in the scheduler. Any suggestions?

[Karl Ottenstein]

Depends on the units - some units in the schedules come from the Calc Units dialog; others come from dimension settings. The inconsistency has existed since version 8.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Karl.

I figured it out just a moment before you posted. Is there some reasoning behind this or is it just a stupid flaw? In any case it should be in the help docs.

[Karl Ottenstein]

It has been a long-term complaint that has never been justified by Graphisoft. There is nothing obvious about which fields will be formatted according to which settings. And, while a named Dimension Settings can be associated with a view - allowing different views to display in different ways ... there is no such thing as a named Calculation Units setting. So, if you want cubic feet for air volume in one schedule but cubic yards for concrete / fill in another - you're stuck with exporting to Excel.

Pretty frustrating.

Cheers,
Karl

[Anonymous]

Yup. Kind of annoying. It really feels sort of cobbled together.

[Erika Epstein]

Karl wrote:
It has been a long-term complaint that has never been justified by Graphisoft. There is nothing obvious about which fields will be formatted according to which settings. And, while a named Dimension Settings can be associated with a view - allowing different views to display in different ways ... there is no such thing as a named Calculation Units setting. So, if you want cubic feet for air volume in one schedule but cubic yards for concrete / fill in another - you're stuck with exporting to Excel.

Pretty frustrating.

Cheers,
Karl

Agree; Lets hope 16 has some improvements in the scheduling, accuracy as well.