weight attribute NX6

[jerry1423]

Below is what is the expression to create a weight part attribute. "mass" is equal to the expression from the body measurement feature that is the mass of the solid, in my case, mass=p38

weight_attribute = ug_setPartAttrValue("WEIGHT",format("%0.2f",mass))

In "%0.2f"
What is the symbol that comes before the zero?
The "2" is the number of decimal places.
What does the "f" refer to?

 

[jerry1423]

I am sorry, the percent sign comes before the zero.
It was not until I posted this that I could see that - In the text editor it looks differnt.

 

[petulf]

The format() function seems to use C printf formating syntax where f stands for decimal floating point number, Google "printf" for more information.


// Petter

 

[JohnRBaker]

Here is a good link you should bookmark:

http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/base/html/sprintf.html

It will show you most all of the so-called 'C-style String Formatting Commands' which is the basis for what we did with the NX Expression system for string formating. Now I can't guarantee that NX supports ALL of the items that you will find on this webpage, but ALL of the ones we DO support are covered there somewhere.

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