Use this when you want to convert a cubic meter value to cubic feet within a flow, for example when the project units are not explicitly defined and you need to ensure volume outputs are in imperial units.
Giraffe is in Metric (meters) by default. When your project is set to Imperial (feet), the engine does some work in the background to evaluate all of the distances and areas to convert them to Imperial. However, in Flow, the engine is often working with raw geometries where it is unclear what the correct unit of measure might be.
Inputs
Name | Abbreviation | Type | Access | Description |
m³ | M | Number | Item | A number, assumed to be representing a volume in cubic meters (optional). If left blank, it is treated as 0. |
Outputs
Name | Abbreviation | Type | Access | Description |
ft³ | F | Number | Item | The number converted from cubic meters to cubic feet |
How to
Measure the volume of a geometry
You may do this using area * Height (via read feature property)
Or, you may simply want to input a number from number or Input Parameter
Add the To cubic feet node. Connect it to the number from the previous step
The output is the original number converted to cubic feet via a multiplier.
1 cubic meter = 35.314666721484606 cubic feet