Example 4: Calculate a Quantity and Round Up

Round up a calculated quantity to conform to standard material (e.g. brick) size

•Determine the number of bricks you need to order (by rounding up to the next whole number)

•The standard size of a brick (IS Standard) is 190 mm ×90 mm ×90 mm

1.Create a Property called “Number of Bricks”.

2.Use an expression to find the number of bricks by dividing the element’s Net Volume by the standard brick volume. (A volume divided by a volume results in a Number.)

3.Create another property called “Number of Bricks to order.”

4.This property rounds up the “Number of Bricks” property (created above) to a whole number. Use the MROUNDUP function for this purpose.

See Round Up to Multiple [MROUNDUP] for information on this function’s arguments and data types.