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Tags & Categories Label 19 - returning wrong info

Scott Bulmer
Booster
Greetings, I am using the subject label but it is returning incorrect values. The beam being labeled is 3 1/8" wide but the label is showing 3 1/4", rounding up. The Project Preferences (dims & working) are set to 1/64". Is there some other setting buried somewhere I am missing or is this a bug? Thanks, Scott

Label 19 T & G.png
AC27 v. 4060 w/ MEP, Cadimage, Twinmotion 2023.2.2 using AC from AC6.0, 2021 MacPro M1 chip, Adobe CC. Used AC on both platforms.
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
What values are set to be displayed in the Label? It seems like it is set to show the Building Material of the Beam, but I don't see such parameter in the Tags & Categories Label.
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Scott Bulmer
Booster
Thank you Laszlo for the response. Please see the attached settings screen shot.
AC27 v. 4060 w/ MEP, Cadimage, Twinmotion 2023.2.2 using AC from AC6.0, 2021 MacPro M1 chip, Adobe CC. Used AC on both platforms.
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
I see.

It seems like there is a rounding inside the Label that causes this.
Unfortunately the Label script is pretty complicated so I didn't find where it is set and if it could be set differently.

I tried a different approach: I created a new custom IFC Property and I created an IFC Mapping for it to return the same data the Object Type option returns in the Label. Then I selected this new IFC Property to be listed in the Label.
This actually uses the Length Unit setting in Calculation Units & Rules Dialog.
This is good for metric, but I am not sure this will be good for your purposes as well since there is no "Feet and Inches" setting, only "decimal feet" or "decimal inches".
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Katalin Borszeki
Graphisoft
Graphisoft
Hi All,
Unfortunately we did not get a response from Scott so we could not figure out the source of his issue.
Katalin Borszeki
Implementation Specialist
GRAPHISOFT

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