Dimension Numerical Display

You can manage V6 Dimension Numerical Display standards for V4 to V6 migration. This topic explains its methodology, wherein, you will learn how the migration of Dimension Numerical Display is carried out, and what you need to pre-define concerning the V6 standard parameters before starting the migration process.

Note: V4 Numerical Displays are known as Value Display Formats in V6.

This page discusses:

Migration mechanism

The migration engine tries to map the name of the V4 Numerical Display used by the dimension to migrate to the name of a V6 Value Display Format:

  • If a V6 Value Display Format bearing the same name as the V4 Numerical Display is found, then this Value Display Format will be applied to the new dimension in V6.
  • If not, all existing V6 Value Display Formats will be scanned and the closest description will be used. However, the result will not be exactly the same.

Pre-definition

There are two possibilities:

  • If you used a standard PRJ (delivered by DS), you do not have to customize anything in particular before migrating the V4 2D Models.
  • If you created a specific Numerical Display in V4, you need to re-create it in V6. If you don't, dimensions which use this Numerical Display will not be mapped during the migration and the result will be different than in V4.

In V4, the Numerical Display (including all its parameters and values) is defined in the DRWSTD function, under Annotations > Description > Visualization > Numerical Display.

In V6, the Value Display Format is defined in the Standards Editor, under Standard > name_of_standard > ValueFormats.

Some of the pre-defined Value Display formats which are provided by default in V6 cannot be modified: for example, NUMM.DIMM, DISTINCH, etc. Since they cannot be edited, these formats do not appear in the Standards Editor.