format a string in drawing

[uwam2ie]

I have string on a drawing controlled from an attribute and want to hide the last six characters from display.(nx8). Any format controlling available?
regards

 

[daluigi]

I would also be very interested in that if possible

 

[sam5a1]

If I understand your question correctly, one way is to capture the number in an expression and then use it in and attribute with the limiting number wanted showing.an example would be having the weight pulled from the part with 8 digits after the decimal but having only 2 digits after the decimal show up in the attribute on the drawing.

In the expressions I have:
Kg_weight = (MakeNumber(ug_askPartAttrValue("weight (kg)")))

Then the applied attribute is: "Insert Annotation-->Note", Relationships, "Insert Expression"
<X0.2@Kg_weight> Kg

This takes the weight of 44.7849000000000 and shows 44.78 Kg on the drawing

 

[uwam2ie]

@sam5a1
yes and no my text attribute is a combination from date and time. I want to get rid of the time portion of the string

 

[cowski]

Create a new expression and reference the date stamp attribute, for this example I'll call the new expression DateTime. Create another new expression of type "string", and for the formula enter:

subString(DateTime,1,length(DateTime)-6)

This will return the DateTime string variable, minus the last 6 characters. Use this new expression for your note.

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[uwam2ie]

thx cowski
maybe a way to do it, are there no formating tricks from the note editor?

 

[jerry1423]

the second response in this thread speaks about the date:

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=228567

 

[uwam2ie]

The really pain is I want to use the new attribute schema Nx8 and above. In Nx 8.03 you can use the date datatype format attribute.It is this comination of date and time. Problem is cell formating in the titleblock cell doesn't work, no string formating. ??? regards