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Have alternative units available for a floor slope in the properties browser.

If you have chosen degree's as your project units, this makes sense when creating roofs but not for calculating the slope of a floor, as this is measured as a ratio, eg 1:100 fall.  This makes creating the slope of a floor something that you have to calculate manually.

 

So it would be possible to have two slope settings available in the project units and have both units available in the properties browser.

 

Slope:   20 deg

Alternative Slope: 1:100

 

PS I am not talking about reporting values tags, you can't change the slope of an object from the tag

 

 

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Advisor
Advisor

You do know you can just type that as an equation in the properties for slope.

= 1:100 also =1/100 works too

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Collaborator
Collaborator

@Mike.FORM No, actually, I didn't. I'm very grateful you posted it.

Maybe a lot of other user's might not know this either, or is this common knowledge that I was not aware of?

Advisor
Advisor

I do know it is in the help documentation, but I couldn't tell you the exact location.

I would say it is not common knowledge, probably less than half the general users know this.

Basically if you put an "=" first you can type almost any equation type and Revit will calculate it.

Collaborator
Collaborator

@Mike.FORM Yeah I knew about including parameter's, formulas, etc, but I never twigged about using alternative units, Im sure its buried somewhere.
Still, it would be beneficial to see the slope shown as a ratio in the properties browser for objects like floors, ramps, etc so the user can see the ratio at a glance.

Advisor
Advisor

Be handy for pipework too!!!