Scientific notation in the command line

[cfee]

ACD-2011, VISTA/32-4Gb

When I do a point ID (I use very large coordinate areas in my drawings) I get the answer back in the command prompt area in scientific notation. We're using conventional feet and inches for our units. Is there a setting to get back to just straight value reporting (in decimal units, of course, as ft-in wouldn't work for these coordinates) at the command line, like we had in 2011 and previous versions ?

Tks-

C. Fee

 

[CarlB]

From the menu:
Format>>Units; lots of options on units & precision
I think you can type "units" on the command line to access this as well.

 

[cfee]

I already tried the UNITS command. nothing there offers a way to report responses at the command line in simple decimals instead of scientific notation no matter what format is running within the drawing (in this case feet & inches)

 

[chicopee]

what is the magnitude of your units when you say very large?

 

[chicopee]

The response in not on the command line, it is in the history line. Is this drawing using LISP? LISP could mess up the ACAD units?

 

[cfee]

Chicopee- LISP not a factor.
Units very large- in the millions. a sample coordinate would look like X=2,347,825.91, Y= -16,877.43 from zero/zero. I'd "ID" a point, and the results would come back to the command line as I've typed them here, in full decimal. I'm aware that this would happen when SOME others would get one of our drawings and ID a point and get the response at the command line in scientific notation, but others would get the response in full decimal, and I and my users always got it in full decimal until now. Very mysterious !

We used ACAD 2006 before upgrading to 2010 with consistent results. Now at 2011 I get get scientific notation at the command line. Again, VERY mysterious ! I'm sure there's a variable somewhere I'm overlooking.

 

[CarlB]

What is your "length type" under "drawing units"
("Feet & inches" is not one of the options, do you mean architectural)?
Just wondering, in case that's set to "scientific".

I notice when architectural units exceed about 1 million (inches), coordinate output defaults to scientific notation, maybe that's what you're seeing.

 

[doct9960]

cfee,

This Autodesk discussion might help...

http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=490134

I tried creating a lisp routine similar to the one in the autodesk discussion and it worked. I set the units to 20 significant places.

 

[cfee]

carlb-
I bet that's it, even tho we're usually set to 1 as a foot, my dimensions are set to architectural with the value scaling factor set appropriately... I'll look into that. Interesting tho that I've been able to get decimal coordinate values up 'til now. They come back as large whole numbers with decimals of a foot. I'll check into your suggestion. Thanks.

doct9960- I'll check into the LISP routine, but I hope I can solve this one without that kind of solution. But if that's it, so be it, and thanks for your input !

I'll post back here with results. As silly as it sounds, this is the best method to check our inputs on the fly, and its the one all my users use, up until now, that is !

Thanks, everyone !

C. Fee