Upcoming Feature: Calculation Sequence - Calculation at Takeoff Level or Object Level

Behind the scenes we're working on a foundational feature that will allow you to control the formula calculations better.

For example: suppose we have a "Linear" takeoff that is made up of 2 linear objects on the page. I have configured the "Round Up to Nearest" to 2.

With current default behavior (Takeoff Level), the "Test" item will first total up the lengths of all the objects to 13.5, and then round up to the nearest 2 which is 14.

If I change the formula to calculate at the Object Level, you can see that it will run the formula separately per object (4.5 would round up to 6, and 9 would round up to 10), then they and then total up to 16 at the takeoff level.

Users have been running in to scenarios that need to control this better. We've called it "Calculation Sequence". We made the Object Level calculation show a blue icon so it's easy to visually notice if it's calculating per object.

A particularly important one is for rounding joist or beam lengths per segment.

For clarification, filling in the "Round Up to Nearest" as 2 is just a shortcut equivalent to putting this in the formula: roundup([Linear:FT], 2)