How can I measure the length of a whole Assembly?

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Fernando

• February 14, 2023 11:16

Hello there,

I am trying to figure out how to get the real length of an assembly. When drawing profile members I get its exact length, but when drawing Assemblies, the Quantifier dialog shows some a measure for the length that I am not getting what is its logic.

This example has been created with one of the ProfileBuilder example assemblies.

I attach a screenshot of the query (this length is actually 10m not 118m.

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  Dale Martens

  • February 14, 2023 15:06

  Hi Fernando - if you hover your mouse over the length field you will see a tooltip for how length is determined.  It is the sum of the lengths of all objects included your selection (including nested objects).

  If you want to calculate the length of an assembly by itself, one approach is to take a unique Profile Member within the assembly (such as the top rail in your example), assign it to a particular tag and then use Tag$ to quantify the profile member by length.  Then when you create a cost detail report, you can see the total length of this profile member and total length of the assemblies (as long as the profile member and tag is not used elsewhere in your model)

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