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09-13-2013, 08:10 AM #1Registered User Promoted
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Room Label - Area in metric AND imperial?
Being an historic imperialistic nation with recent European entente cordiales / FrancoGermanic powergrabs...
In the UK about 50% of people use metric and the other 1/2 use imperial measurements - in fact most use both depending on whether it's hot (F), cold (C), beer (pints), petrol (litres), pheasants (brace), money (decimal £) unless of course it's money at a horse race in which case it's guineas....
You get the idea, we are one confused country.
Is CA able to help as I have to design in metric (European rules), but then the old builder - or young estate agent - asks for areas in square feet.
So that's it. Can CA show me square metres and square feet in room labels. I'm talking AUTOMATIC - I'm on one of my occasional time saving drives. I'm suspecting it may be a macro or ruby answer but please try and keep it simple to match my brain capacity.
Thanks, danke and merci bien.Andy
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09-13-2013, 08:24 AM #2Registered User Promoted
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Oh and can I have m2 to one decimal place on room label? It looks unnecessarily complex with 2 decimals.
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09-13-2013, 08:29 AM #3Registered User Promoted
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And now it's giving me room height in millimetres which would look plain crazy to a house buyer. I need to know how control formatting if room labels are to be of any real use.
And half the time I double click on room label it says 'Room label text can only be modified through the Room Specification or Room Lable Defaults dialogues, etc etc' - the other half it lets me change the text and macros. ??Andy
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09-16-2013, 07:55 AM #4Administrator
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Sound's like the UK use of units is just as messed up as the US. Probably a macro is your best bet now. I will certainly keep this in mind moving forward.
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09-16-2013, 04:36 PM #5Registered User Promoted
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Thanks Doug.
Just remembered we (the UK) are actually 4 confused countries, though there is a vote soon on whether Scotland will leave.Andy
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09-16-2013, 10:43 PM #6
We do our dimensioning in metric, but many customers ask for squares for floor area - for some reason they can envison the size of a house in squares but not square metres
And as a side note to that it would be handy if Chief gave us living areas in m2 NOT sq mChief Bug Fix Department
Rod
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09-17-2013, 01:46 AM #7
Chief has this capability, but you have to use a macro as pointed out by Doug. Take a look at the help topic "Text Macro Management"
To read internal room area in sq meters just put the following in a macro and add the macro to the room label.
"#{internal_area} m\xb2"
Set content type to: owner, check evaluate. This is valid for most fonts. But if your using a off font \xb2 may be different.Gerry
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09-17-2013, 04:16 PM #8
Thanks Gerry,
another great tip, I'll give it a go.
By default though, I don't know about other metric countries, but m2 is the norm here so hopefully that would be a simple thing for Chief to change as a standard output rather than using a macro.Chief Bug Fix Department
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09-18-2013, 05:13 AM #9Registered User Promoted
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m2 yep. And m3.
Andy
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