Drafting Dimension Rounding

[Andy512]

Is there a way to get all displayed dimension values to round up in V20?

For example: 6.1 to round up to 7.

The ROUND-UP option in the Units Tab of the dimension style editor only rounds values 5 and over. Less than 5 and it rounds down. (settle down, I realize this is the standard method of rounding. Just need all numbers rounded up)

 

[donyoung]

Hi,

I think you're screwed: I can't think of any way to do this
other than by programming a small macro or addin

dy

 

[beachcomber]

Or change them manually - but that's dangerous.

bc.
2.4GHz Core2 Quad, 4GB RAM,
Quadro FX4600.

 

[beachcomber]

There is away but it might be a bit long-winded if you have loads of dims.
Every dim you put on becomes a variable.
Open the variable table and locate one of you dims eg. V123
Now create a new variable called something like RND_V123 and set the formula to FIX(V123)+1
THIS WILL TAKE THE INETEGER PART OF THE DIMENSION AND ADD ONE TO IT.
Now turn off the display of the dimension text, and on the prefix/suffix set the Subfix to %{RND_V123}
Just in case you can't read these characters thats
"Percent", "LH Sqiggly Bracket" "RND_V123" "RH Squiggly Bracket"
You would need to do this for every dimension, each with it's own matching variable.

bc.
2.4GHz Core2 Quad, 4GB RAM,
Quadro FX4600.

 

[Andy512]

Unfortunately, this method adds 1 to all values including 6.0 which becomes 7.

The Round-Up option should probably be relabeled as ROUND because that's what it does. Almost seems like a bug to me.

Will start looking at using Excel for display of dimensions because =ROUNDUP(#.#) does what I need it to do there.

 

[donyoung]

Hi,

this should do (assuming a max. of 2 decimals):

var1 3.12
var2 3.00
fix(var1+0.99) --> 4.00
fix(var2+0.99) --> 3.00

dy