Lucmos Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Hi, I'm evaluating CA X7 right now and found that rooms finish total calculation is wrong, it seems that decimals are not added, which lead to massive differences in the end ! Also, I would like to have better precision in area calculation as it seems the results are rounded. Is it a bug or a wrong setting ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Where are you seeing these values that you don't agree with? Room Labels? Finish Schedule? Materials List? Without knowing exactly what you are referring to there's no way to answer your question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucmos Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 Hi, it's in the Room Finish Schedule, the total row is showing false sum: Also,I want better precision for areas, both in the room finish schedule and in rooms labels (tax are calculated based on area) Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 The Room Finish Schedule and the Room Labels are both rounded to 2 decimal places. With imperial units (sq.ft.) it's not a bit deal but I can see that with metric units (sq.m.) it would be about 10 times as much. I've never used the Totals in the Schedule so I'm not sure why that is off. There is a way to calculate these to whatever degree of accuracy you need using a Ruby Script (macro) but that takes a bit of programming to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucmos Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 thanks Joe The room finsih schedule doesn't add the decimals in the total (in my exemple, 14 + 70 + 9 = 93) this is insane ! I can't believe everyone is ok with that ! How can I calculate the total rooms interior area with better precision with ruby ? Have you some exemples ? how to loop through all rooms ? ps : even with ruby, internal_area return only 2 (rounded) decimals... I guess I'll look elsewhere, CA is not capable of better precision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 you may want to call CA's customer service to discuss your needs and the issues you are finding they may have solutions/tips etc Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucmos Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 I'm not a customer as I only have downloaded the trial version, for evaluations purposes, and sure, I won't buy it. Still, I'm astonished that nobody actually reported this until now and that people are working with such a defect. Thanks anyways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I am not sure why it is not showing the decimal places. It is working OK for me. Maybe post the plan so that we can have a look at your settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucmos Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 Hi, I can't save plans with the trial version. But, I've changed nothing in settings, even reinstalled CA but I've the same behaviour. Do you have changed a particular setting ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 You don't need to be a customer .... this forum is for users so the replies you get while informative - are not the "horse's mouth" Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I have been trying to think of a setting that would effect the decimal places in a schedule, but I can't think of one. Anyone else? Maybe it's a quirk with the trial version. I recommend that you call support and ask them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucmos Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 I think I found the bug : my computer's region decimal separator is a , if I put a . (dot) it works... Well that's a nice bug easily fixable by the CA's team, now I still miss a better precision in labels... Thanks everybody for your help ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Glad you fixed that one. As Joe said, with a custom Ruby script, you can report the area to any number of decimals you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucmos Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 Thanks glennw I'm not sure because internal_area return only 2 decimals. If anyone has a clue how to achieve this, it would be nice. Time to go to sleep here Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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