Showing posts with label Custom proprerty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Custom proprerty. Show all posts

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Decimal precision for custom properties in SolidWorks

Controlling the decimal precision for a custom property can be done independantly of document properties. To do this we need to create an equation. Take this example of mass. The first step is to create a custom property for mass.



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The document units have been set to 8 decimal places so the custom property also has 8. I then have to create an equation that will round my custom property.



Decimal2


I have created a global variable to show I want the mass with 2 decimal places. The equation uses the existing custom property weight and with the round function rounds to 2 decimal places. ROUND("weight",2)



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Finally I have created a second custom property that uses the global variable to display the rounded number.


Thanks,


Jordan Nardick, CSWE
Applications Engineer
Computer Aided Technology, Inc.