I've made a clip to be 3-D printed, and I want to have printed text on the part that is linked to a dimension - in this case, the nominal diameter of the clip.
THIS I HAVE FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO! Just use "Dx@SketchY", just like referencing dimensions in other contexts. Yeah! Picture below shows that success. However, that is not my problem.
The issue now is I want this dimension to only appear as "3.4" instead of "3.40". I don't need that kind of precision in this feature. I have tried selecting the dimension in its original sketch to only show one (1) decimal place:
As you can see, the dimension itself shows correctly after the change, but the sketch text does not update to reflect this. I have also tried changing the document properties->Dimensions selection to be the same, but it also had no effect.
My gut tells me I should be controlling this in the Sketch Text entity rather than in the source dimension, but that's coming from my experience in Excel where you can get a value from another cell and control the display of each of them independently, and that system is made for that kind of flexibility. It's not obvious whether that's an option here. I don't see an option in the Sketch Text propertymanager for such a thing.
Is there another control that affects how a dimension is displayed when it's referenced, or (preferably) that affects how referenced values are displayed in a Sketch Text result? Is there additional syntax available to the "Dx@..." reference that would allow me to specify the precision? The last would be the most flexible and preferable if it exists, but that might be asking a lot for a CAD program.
Thanks for the help!
-Dan B.
