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properties expression in schedule

Dave Seabury
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Trying to get the height of the rough opening into a schedule.  I have a property with the following expression,  W/D Nominal Sill Height - .375in.  The schedule will give the correct height of the sill but will not subtract the .375 for the rough opening.  What am i missing?

 

Thanks for any insights

 

David

 

Operating system used: Windows 10

AC 19-26 Windows 10 64 bit, Dell Prercision 7820, Xeon Silver 2414R ( 12 Cores), 64 GB Ram, Quadro RTX 4000 8GB
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I am not sure about expressions when it comes to Imperial units.

I know with metric we can convert to the unit we want.

Maybe also the Working Units or Calculation Units in the Project Preferences will have an effect?

 

Barry.

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Barry Kelly
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So if you select any window, open the property settings and press the 'Evaluate' button, do you get the correct answer?

If not, then there is something wrong with the expression.

Maybe show a screen shot here.

 

If that is all good, are you adding that property as a field in your schedule settings and not just using the sill height?

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

Barry

 

Evaluate does not return the correct value.  it only shows 

feet and inches (4'-2") no fraction, it should be 4.'-2 1/8".

the schedule shows 4'-2 1/2" which is the value of 

W/D Nominal Sill Height.

 

I'm thinking that i have to somehow qualify the Value of

W/D Nominal Sill Height as an expression using feet and 

fractional inches not just feet and inches.

 

David

AC 19-26 Windows 10 64 bit, Dell Prercision 7820, Xeon Silver 2414R ( 12 Cores), 64 GB Ram, Quadro RTX 4000 8GB
Solution

I am not sure about expressions when it comes to Imperial units.

I know with metric we can convert to the unit we want.

Maybe also the Working Units or Calculation Units in the Project Preferences will have an effect?

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

Barry

 

Calculation units was set to 1", changed to 1/16" and

all is as it should be.  Thanks yet again for your help

 

David

AC 19-26 Windows 10 64 bit, Dell Prercision 7820, Xeon Silver 2414R ( 12 Cores), 64 GB Ram, Quadro RTX 4000 8GB

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