Plant 3D 2023 - Imperial automated bolt lengths to display on metric project BOM?

[mark_a_jones]

Hi,

After a bit of support, ive had a look on the forums etc but cant find an answer to my specific problem

Ive been tasked with automating bolt lengths on our Bill of Materials for such instances where larger blind flange diameters are thicker than weldneck flanges diameters etc. After lots of research i managed to do this via the Spec Editor (2023) using the edit bolt mapping window, assigning the 'bolt compatible standard' to the bolts in the catalogue, and using (@@@) in the long description etc. 

All works great apart from i cannot get the bolt lengths to display in imperial. No matter what ive tried it always calls off the length in metric on the long description, so it will display:

Stud Bolt, 2 3/4"  x 571.5 LG (where 571.5mm is the metric value i want to display as imperial)

What it should display

Stud Bolt, 2 3/4" x 22 1/2" LG

As you can see above, the same bolt set is used and it has automated the length (571.5 is for a weldneck to weldneck and the 577.85 is for the blind flange to weldneck)

The long description format in the spec editor is Stud Bolt, 2 3/4" x @@@ LG

This is a metric project but i have tried creating boltsets in both metric and imperial formats for my project, but having no luck.

Here is my metric example

All other flanges in the project are metric (they need to be)

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Many thanks

[h_eger]

Dear @mark_a_jones ,

Simple answer: This does not work!
You will not be successful without additional paid tools.

or you can try this.

https://blog.hagerman.com/autocad-plant-3d-custom-spec-property-project-property-definitions