in creating objects I prefer to use millimeter units, how do I change the QTO length unit from millimeters to meters without changing the object creation
@sahrul
you can add meter as length unit but it won't affect qto of your existing elements, I tried sometime ago but it messed up the model
I think it's a needed feature the possibility to operate (within Bonsai' s BoQ) on quantities to show a different output format with basic operations. Maybe the issue is where to save the very operation in the IFC file.
Otherwise you can change the model's length unit using a patch ConvertLengthUnit to meter, or (like myself) get used to working in meters for lengths, it's not that different after all, typing 3000 mm wall length or 200 mm thickness becomes 3 and .2, it's actually shorter ;)
I don't work with print outs so I have no issue with dimension values.
I hope someone here can come up with a better solution
@steverugi and @Massimo Would it make sense that this information is stored as part of csv cost file? Something like Quantity (mm) so that after importing/exporting the units are understood properly?
@falken10vdl well, it could be 2 new feature, the first one that allows to show different unit measure in the cost schedule and the second one that handle this during the import.
For me, i would prefer to focus on the improvements we have already defined but, in the future, it could be a good feature i guess
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@steverugi
@sahrul
you can add meter as length unit but it won't affect qto of your existing elements, I tried sometime ago but it messed up the model
I think it's a needed feature the possibility to operate (within Bonsai' s BoQ) on quantities to show a different output format with basic operations. Maybe the issue is where to save the very operation in the IFC file.
Otherwise you can change the model's length unit using a patch ConvertLengthUnit to meter, or (like myself) get used to working in meters for lengths, it's not that different after all, typing 3000 mm wall length or 200 mm thickness becomes 3 and .2, it's actually shorter ;)
I don't work with print outs so I have no issue with dimension values.
I hope someone here can come up with a better solution
@steverugi and @Massimo Would it make sense that this information is stored as part of csv cost file? Something like Quantity (mm) so that after importing/exporting the units are understood properly?
@steverugi can you give me a csv file that i can import into bonsaibim
@falken10vdl well, it could be 2 new feature, the first one that allows to show different unit measure in the cost schedule and the second one that handle this during the import.
For me, i would prefer to focus on the improvements we have already defined but, in the future, it could be a good feature i guess
@sahrul
this is the structure of a .csv file:
to generate something like:
the "Index" column is important to set the nesting of items, and have automated summary of parent ones
@Massimo
100% agree