double quote for a report quantity

[qnen]

A user is trying to get the quantity displayed in the drawing table to include the " (to indicate inches). He has the repeat region relations working fine to modify the value. However, it throws an error when he tries to include the double quote. Any ideas (other than using two single quotes)?


Michael Kuehnen, Kansas City

 

[looslib]

PTC assumes that the quantity is a discrete quantity/count and that anything else is a bulk item.
It sounds like you want 12" of a bulk item, like a chain or rope.
The option is to define the 12" piece of material as a separate part number annd use a quantity of 1 in your BOM.


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[qnen]

Looslib
That is close to the situation. The item is a felt like rope used for gasketing. We get it as a box of 50ft. We issue it to different assembly jobs in units of inches. We don't want to create part numbers for each different length because then our ERP system sees it as value added to the purchased part and starts doing weird accounting stuff to the price (2x upcharge, time allocations, etc).

We really want the BOM to show 12". So far the best solution is the single quote 12'' (spacing looks weird) or 12in.





Michael Kuehnen, Kansas City

 

[mjcole]

Michael, I Like your last name pronunciation being used as User Name.

Couldn't you just use "in" for the length unit instead of #' #" for Feet and Inches. it'd be the same size length as "''".
Or you could make an extruded feature as the rope instead of a bulk item and show the Dimension Symbol in BOM description.

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