Unit Formatting of Double

[leslief]

I have a little plugin that returns the length of a set of selected detail lines and copies the value to the clipboard so I can paste it into notes for egress distance, etc..  I can't figure out how to get the return value formatted as feet-inches UnitType in Revit.  It's just a double, and at the moment I'm punting by using:

double feet = Math.Truncate(totalLength);
double inches = Math.Ceiling((totalLength - feet) * 12);

string lenTxt = feet + " ft " + inches + " in";

Any help would be appreciated.

[gopinath.taget]

Hello,

THe UnitFormatUtils API class will help. It will return a string in a certain format given a value and vice-versa. Please take a look at the SDK sample on how to use it:

RevitSDK\2014\Samples\Units\CS

Hope this helps.

Best Regards

Gopinath