Scientific notation in the command line
Scientific notation in the command line
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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
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





RE: Scientific notation in the command line
Format>>Units; lots of options on units & precision
I think you can type "units" on the command line to access this as well.
RE: Scientific notation in the command line
RE: Scientific notation in the command line
RE: Scientific notation in the command line
RE: Scientific notation in the command line
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.
RE: Scientific notation in the command line
("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.
RE: Scientific notation in the command line
This Autodesk discussion might help... http:
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.
RE: Scientific notation in the command line
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