adding decimal places to angle measurement in drawing mode

[ptc-267878]

wf4

sorry to ask this elementary question, but I am trying to add decimal places to an angle measurement in drawing mode, and it is just not working for this particular drawing. Regardless of what I enter, it gives me 0 decimal places. I think it may have to do with the feature or edge I select, because there are some angle measurements in the same view that work just fine... if you have any insight, let me know.

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[ptc-810450]

Hi DL,
You are getting no decimal places because the angle is 45 degrees exactly.
I presume you want 45.000 degrees. In this case you need to change your
drawing options to allow trailing zeroes. I can't remember what it is
called exactly but have a look around in the options menu, it is fairly
obviously named.

In regards to curves, you can have separate layer displays for separate
views (after making the drawing layer display separate to the model
display as described in an earlier post). Above the layer tree is an
arrow button (from memory, I don't have ProE open), click on it and then
click on a view and you should be able to modify that specific views
layers.

Regards,
--
Mark von Huben
Cochlear Ltd

[amedina]

It could be that the person who first drew it added some code to remove the
decimals? Typed in the 45 using the @O option? there are probably other
such things. maybe the dimension is controlled by a relation and so is the
amount of decimals?
lets see what others come up with. I like to know about pro/e's annoyances,
they bring happiness to my otherwise ordinary life.

[A.DelNegro]

the @O simply omits the actual dimension and lets you type whatever you
want. In this case it would appear to be very bad form. If you delete
the entered text the dimension will return. You should then be able to
show however many decimals you want via the setting in the properties
box.



T

[JonathanHodgson]

As suggested earlier in this thread, have a look at the drawing option "lead_trail_zeros".

We have it set to "std_metric", which does *not* show trailing zeroes after the decimal point, but there is a wide range of other settings available for this option.

Jonathan

[ptc-267878]

i changed lead_trail_zeros to english, and that seemed to solve the issue. thanks!