Some New Project Settings

There have been some improvements in the area of project settings. Nothing to call the Vatican about, but still nice improvements.

Suppressing Trailing Zeros and Spaces

You can format project units to suppress trailing zeros (for example, 123.400 displays as 123.4) and suppress spaces (for example, 1’ - 2” displays as 1’-2”).

• Click Settings menu>Project Units, or type the keyboard shortcut UN.
• In the Project Units dialog, select the discipline.
• Click the value in the Format column to change the display value for that unit type. The Format dialog displays.
• Specify Units, if necessary.
• For Rounding, select an appropriate value.If you select Custom, enter a value in the Rounding increment text box.
• For Unit symbol, select an appropriate option from the list.
• Optionally select:

Suppress trailing 0’s :: When selected, trailing zeros do not display (for example, 123.400 displays as 123.4).
Suppress 0 feet :: When selected, does not display the 0 foot value (for example, 0’ - 4” displays as 4”).This option is available for Length and Slope units.
Show + for positive values :: Do I really need to explain this one?
Use digit grouping :: When selected, the Decimal symbol/digit grouping option specified in the Project Units dialog is applied to the unit value.
Suppress spaces :: When selected, suppresses spaces around feet and fractional inches (for example, 1’ - 2” displays as 1’-2”). This option is available for Length and Slope units.

• Click OK.

Decimal Display and Digit Grouping

The decimal display option for project units has changed. When you select the decimal display type, you can also select how to group the digits in the unit value.

1. Click Settings menu>Project Units, or type the keyboard shortcut UN.
2. In the Project Units dialog, select a value from the Decimal symbol/digit grouping list.
3. In the Format column, click the button for the unit you want to use this setting.
4. In the Format dialog, select Use digit grouping.
5. Click OK 2 times.

{Revit Structure 2009 User's Guide}