Tip # - How to change the precision of the value
displayed in a note
Product: HyperView
Product Version: 10.0 and above
Topic Objective
To change the precision of the value displayed in a note
Topic Details
It is often necessary to display/see the contour value or any such value with a particular precision
i.e. with required decimal places.
To do so create a note in HyperView
Go to Annotations > notes
Notes panel is activated as below
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Click on Add to add a new note, choose attach to entity to attach the note to an entity,
In this example the model is already contoured with displacement and hence is attached to a
node,
We now choose to display the contour value i.e. displacement of the node in this note, so in field
names we select entity contour value and then click on insert field
We now get the default contour displayed as below
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To change the precision we enter the following syntax in the field
{entity.contour_val , %.3f} where 3 is the number of decimal digits
We can enter any number after the decimal point in the syntax to get the required precision
For instance %.9f to get 9 decimal values after the decimal point
We now get the required result as shown in the images below
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