topic Re: Rounding an attribute down in Dynamic Blocks Forum

Rounding an attribute down

samuelb8Y56V — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 15:25:37 GMT

Hi,

I'm not perfect with my terminology as I'm fairly new to dynamic blocks. I've successfully made a block which allows for various racking dimensions that can then be arrayed along a line but wanted to add a way to count the number of bays in a run, which I currently do by hand. I have gotten fairly close in that the attribute displays the number of bays but I want it to round down as I can't have 0.789 bays, yet my attempts of using ROUND and ROUNDDOWN have had little affect or produce a ####. Any explanation or edit to the attached dwg would be so useful as the work I've done so far has been fun.

Re: Rounding an attribute down

h_s_walker — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 15:54:50 GMT

1. I would change all your distance parameters to increment (see the first picture below) to make sure you don't have a distance which isn't a bay length.

2. Change the precision of the formula to 0 decimal places (see the second picture below)

Re: Rounding an attribute down

samuelb8Y56V — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 07:50:12 GMT

Perfect took me some tries to get the formula to save the settings, but got there in the end. Thanks