Material Size Limits

[portrait]

Hi,

I'm trying to build a system to create materials lists. While defining the wall wrap, I have noticed that Chief won't allow me to specify a size longer than 32767 mm (107' 6 1/16"). If I use an Imperial template, the maximum size I could use becomes 170' - 7 15/16" for any material.

 

 

I would like to be able to use these 60 m long 'rolls', but the max length I could define is only 32.767 metres. Is there a way to overcome this limitation?

 

[glennw]

You should be able to do that by using Linear instead of Count and specifying a width.

You can then create a new Unit Conversion to convert the length into number of 60m rolls.

You can then display number of 60m rolls in the ML.

If you want anything more fancy like rounding to full rolls doing it without Unit Conversions, you would probably need to use custom macros.