List items, calculate that item by the way it was digitized
It would be nice if we could have one item that could be counted differently by the way it was digitized. Some times we need to COUNT how many boards of a set length , and other times we need boards of a set length in LF (divided by the board length and rounded up).
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Some times a plywood is on the wall LF/4 rounded up (because plywood is 4' wide and the walls are measure in LF, but we are looking for EA) .... some times the same plywood is on the roof SQFT/32 rounded up .....
I suppose we could get surface area of the wall and use SQFT all the time but that is not how we think because it doesn't always allow for waist the same.
Thank you for the feature request! I believe this should be possible with formulas that detect the takeoff type the item is under (essentially using an IF condition to choose the formula based on the type). Right now we don't expose the type for the takeoff, but I will mention this to the DEV team and see if we can add it.
@jeremiah, it's not perfect, but I had Claude code a tool that takes segment lengths individually and rounds them into the most efficient usage of materials, but does this operation for each segment individually, rather than as a calculation of the overall total length. I use it to breakdown lighting track into 4ft, 8ft, and 12ft segments, but the values can be adjusted. Does this sound at all like what you're trying to do? If so I can post some screenshots of the formulas.