Determine Units inside a rule

[morauski]

been working with catia about six months. just getting started into creating rules and i have a need to know what the current units are within the rule. is there a way to find out what the current units (mm or in) is? I need to format a catalog value with only mm values

 

[CEROG]

Which sort of rules do you mean? rules from KWA or the rules which you can get with the fog-icon?

Regards,

CEROG

 

[Azrael]

If I recollect right, if you don't have a unit to numerical value it will be counted in meters and parameters of length, angle.. type will be according to setting

 

[morauski]

it is from the kwa side of things.

if the user's units for length is set to mm then all is well; if they select dia= change it then the current rule looks at the value converts it to a string and changes the catalog entry from say D40 L300 to D30 L300 but if it is set to inches then it ends up looking like D1 L300

I haven't found the functions/procedures or whatever you call them in Catia

i would think that something like IsMetric() would exist but don't know where to really look

 

[morauski]

After experimenting with the string options it turns out that when you convert a parameter to a string it also includes the units. so i was able to check the string for the units and then format the required string based on the test.

However, if there is an easier way i would still like to know about it.