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.)

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  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.

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