Remove units from schedule (calculating occupancy)

Remove units from schedule (calculating occupancy)

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Remove units from schedule (calculating occupancy)

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Is there a way to remove the units from a column in a schedule, just graphically?

 

I have a schedule with calculations to generate the occupancy of each room, however in order to get the calcuation to work, I have to tell it that it is an area (or else I get an error "inconsistant units.") So now I have a column that is actually the number of people, but it has SF after each number, so if i could prevent the units from showing at all, problem solved. 

 

The schedule is just for internal office reference, and won't be published, but to prevent confusion, it'd be better to not have the SF showing. Or, if anyone know of a better way to generate occupancy, suggestions are welcome. 

 

attachment shows current layout of schedule, and highlighted column to remove units if possible, also showing calculation used. 

 

(Working in 2014, upgrading to 2015 in a matter of days.)

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L.Maas
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Two Options. To escape the incosistent units. Divide by 1 SF (1 m2 in my case).

Schedule 1.png

 

Or change unit format

 

Schedule 2.png

 

Louis

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Thank you! That worked!

 

When dividing by 1SF, it obviously adds unnescary decimal places,  but that's easily fixed in the format dialogue, using rounding. It appears this rounds up when appropriate - is it possible to force it to round down? (Minor thing, no big deal if not)

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L.Maas
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Revit has now several round functions:

round (x)

roundup (x)

rounddown (x)

 

So for example you can create calculated value:

 

rounddown(Area / 1 m²)

Louis

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