When you need the ability to change units not per entire schedule rather than a simple Field, this feature sounds useful.
Currently in AC28 when you need to change the units for your schedules, you need to either change the Calculation or Working units or change the Saved View's Units (not working always) (reference image attached)
Instead of that, should be useful to express or show different units per field on Schemas or Quantity Tables. This should be done easily by adding features to schemas when you click on a field having settings to adjust units directly on tables.
For Example:
In Latin American countries, we work MEP elements in both Metric and Imperial Units. Actually, you should change the calculation units to do this, instead of that should be helpful to change how the units are shown per field. So you can have length in the Metric System and diameters or section sizes working with Imperial Units (fractional inches which is the most annoying thing)
- In the following image you can see, there are MEP fields extracting Length and Diameter in Metric System.
To do the change for Imperial units. -
Maybe, by common sense, you would think to save the view in imperial system but that would affect the entire schedule. So this doesn't works. So you dig into the next step.
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The next common thing is to change the Calculation Units, considering this would affect the whole project should be considered as a partial solution. This should change the whole units schedule. The work around for this is to make a property to convert from fractional inches to meters for the length, and then to a STRING, and that's it but it's frustrating to have this long workaround for something that could be simply done.
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