Units in room tags

[MikeJarosz]

Help! I cannot find what controls decimal units in room tag areas. I want my areas to display as whole numbers such as 150 SF. Instead, I get 150.71. The project units are set to zero decimal places for area. Then I edited the room tag. In the family editor I set the area units to zero decimals. I set the sample value for the label to 150 - Then I loaded the family back into the project, allowed overwrite with parameter values. Nothing changed. I even set the room schedule field format to zero decimals. That worked - but only on the schedule, not on the tags. Where else can I look?

[CADastrophe]

The format is defined by the Project, not the Tag Family. In your Project, go to Project Units and modify the format of 'Area' to 0 decimal places.

Edit: The above is incorrect - see Alfredo's post #4.

[MikeJarosz]

Project settings are set to 0 decimals

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[Alfredo Medina]

The format can be defined in the tag family as well. If the units in the project are already set to zero decimals for areas and your tag is still showing decimals, then your label for area in the tag family is not following project settings.

Open the tag family, select the label for area, and see if the units of the label are set to follow the project settings or not. It seems that the label is not following the project settings.

[MikeJarosz]

Thanks Alfredo. :beer: That was it. Our posts crossed in the blogosphere. [Wasn't blogosphere the mayor of Chicago???}

[CADastrophe]

Sorry, Mike - That's something I missed! Thank you, Alfredo!

[MikeJarosz]

Don't feel sorry, I missed it too.

This comes under the Revit category of "tiny little check boxes in the lower left hand corner, three screens into a procedure, that change everything and you can spend all day searching for it!!!!!"

[VanillaVu]

Thanks! This was very helpful!!!


The format can be defined in the tag family as well. If the units in the project are already set to zero decimals for areas and your tag is still showing decimals, then your label for area in the tag family is not following project settings.

Open the tag family, select the label for area, and see if the units of the label are set to follow the project settings or not. It seems that the label is not following the project settings.