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Length is the measurement of an element, Distance is the measurement between elements?
I have no idea if this is correct, but its the first thing that comes to mind. i think it is supposed to be used with Surevey Feet functions.
Howard Munsell
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Length is the measurement of an element, Distance is the measurement between elements?
I have no idea if this is correct, but its the first thing that comes to mind. i think it is supposed to be used with Surevey Feet functions.
Howard Munsell
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Hello all, Distance is the unit used for road stationing (civil design), when importing bridges from InfraWorks would need to tag with this units because these are the units used in linear features for infrastructure.
More info here:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-structure-forum/revit-2021-1-new-quot-alignment-station-quot-an...
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2021/ENU/Revit-C...
J. Samuel Santana F.
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Hello all, Distance is the unit used for road stationing (civil design), when importing bridges from InfraWorks would need to tag with this units because these are the units used in linear features for infrastructure.
More info here:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-structure-forum/revit-2021-1-new-quot-alignment-station-quot-an...
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2021/ENU/Revit-C...
J. Samuel Santana F.
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I agree. But that's is how they do. I'm also Architect.
Usually, in the US, the stationing do not use inches, only feet and mostly US Survey Foot instead of International Foot (depending on the state)*.
The measure of hundreds are separated from the rest with a plus (+) symbol; E.G.: 12,345.67' are noted as 123+45.67 measured from the road center line (or whatever profile/linear feature). Other features can be referenced from the road with the stationing and an offset value. In common langue and road signs road distances are expressed with Miles
In Autodesk Civil 3D I see these formats to display alignment stations (I think Revit only uses the plus symbol):
- 10+50.00
- 10-50.00
- 10_50.00
- 1050.00
- 10/50.00
- 10C50.00
- 10K50.00
Because of this (no inches, no fractions, and US Survey Foot) I think it's no practical to use the same value as the Length used by all the mortals.
In the rest of the world we use stationing with Meters and the plus (+) symbol separate the thousand unit: 12.345,678 km = 12,345.687 m would be 12+345.678 (meters). Road signs and common language would use kilometers for distances.
We, the rest of the world also think like you and say "it will be less confusion if the US get rid of the International Foot and the US Survey Foot (also inches, fraction of inches, yards, miles, etc.) and get Metricated", that had not happened... yet. But that looks to be a big deal 🤣
... At least the US Survey Foot looks to be deprecated by 31/12/2022 (day/month/year like in the most of the world 😜)
J. Samuel Santana F.
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I agree. But that's is how they do. I'm also Architect.
Usually, in the US, the stationing do not use inches, only feet and mostly US Survey Foot instead of International Foot (depending on the state)*.
The measure of hundreds are separated from the rest with a plus (+) symbol; E.G.: 12,345.67' are noted as 123+45.67 measured from the road center line (or whatever profile/linear feature). Other features can be referenced from the road with the stationing and an offset value. In common langue and road signs road distances are expressed with Miles
In Autodesk Civil 3D I see these formats to display alignment stations (I think Revit only uses the plus symbol):
- 10+50.00
- 10-50.00
- 10_50.00
- 1050.00
- 10/50.00
- 10C50.00
- 10K50.00
Because of this (no inches, no fractions, and US Survey Foot) I think it's no practical to use the same value as the Length used by all the mortals.
In the rest of the world we use stationing with Meters and the plus (+) symbol separate the thousand unit: 12.345,678 km = 12,345.687 m would be 12+345.678 (meters). Road signs and common language would use kilometers for distances.
We, the rest of the world also think like you and say "it will be less confusion if the US get rid of the International Foot and the US Survey Foot (also inches, fraction of inches, yards, miles, etc.) and get Metricated", that had not happened... yet. But that looks to be a big deal 🤣
... At least the US Survey Foot looks to be deprecated by 31/12/2022 (day/month/year like in the most of the world 😜)
J. Samuel Santana F.
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