Quantities and Units
On the Quantities and Units
page you can define needed quantities and units settings (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Quantities and
Units
page
- Select an applicable quantity in the table on the top section
of
the page, where:
- Quantity - the
quantity name;
- Source - the source
of
the selected quantity (ISO or user defined).
Or
- Add a new quantity by clicking on Add button next to the table. The New quantity wizard dialogue
window
appears. Created quantity appears in the table.
Or
- Remove the redundant or incorrect quantity by using Remove button next to the
table.
In the <quantity> settings
layout the settings layout the setting for the selected quantity are
displayed. The name of the layout is dynamic, it shows the currently
selected quantity name (see Figure
1, the 'length' quantity is selected and displayed in the
label of
the layout).
- Use default unit for labels
- if this option is On,
the
default unit label is displayed in the table cell (see Figure 2).
Figure 2. The table
cell
label
- Available units for the selected quantity are displayed in the
list on the right side of the settings layout (see Figure 1):
- Use Add button to
add
a new unit into the list. The Unit
wizard dialogue window appears on the screen.
- Use Remove button
to
remove the incorrect or redundant value from the list. The
default
value can not be removed.
- Use Set As Default
button to set the currently selected unit in the list is set
as default
unit.
- Show trailing zeroes -
select the check box to set an option On.
- Show thousands separator
- select the check box to set an option On.
- Decimal places - enter
the number of decimal places.
- Click OK or Apply buttons on the bottom
section
of the page to apply settings.
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New quantity wizard
The New quantity wizard
helps
the user to create a new quantity:
- Enter a name of the quantity to be created into the Name field.
- The table in the middle of the window displays the default
unit
settings for the quantity to be created.
- Select an applicable value from the Prefix drop down list.
- Select a value from the Unit
drop
down list.
- Enter an exponent value into the Exponent cell (available values -1,
1, 2 and 3).
- Click Add button
to
add more components if needed.
- The Label above
the
table displays the quantity representation.
Figure 3. New quantity
wizard dialogue window
- After all parameters are set, click OK button. The created quantity
appears in the table (see Figure
4). The source of the created quantity is set to 'User
defined'.
Figure 4. Created new
quantity
('example quantity') in the table
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Unit wizard
The Unit wizard helps the
user
to create a new unit for the selected quantity (see Figure 6).
- Select an applicable quantity in the Quantities and Units page
table (see Figure 5) and
click Add button next
to the list of
units in the force settings
layout.
Figure 5. Quantities and
Units
page with displayed force settings
- The Unit wizard
dialogue
window appears on the screen (see Figure 6):
Figure 6. Unit wizard
dialogue
window
- Select an applicable value from the Prefix drop down list.
- Select a value from the Unit
drop
down list.
- Enter an exponent value into the Exponent cell (available values -1, 1, 2 and
3).
- Click Add button to
add
more components if needed.
- The Label above the
table displays the quantity representation (see Figure 7).
Figure
7. Unit wizard dialogue window with unit parameters
- Click OK button to
create a new unit. The unit appears in the list in the settings
layout
(see Figure 8).
Figure 8. Created unit in
the
list
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