Rating issue

One of the smaller offices I am dealing with has a small problem with ratings in specifications

When they OUT a specification the heading comes out as below

$S-
$(  BORE UNITS MM    $)
$(  DISTANCE UNITS MM    $)

OLD SPECIFICATION /XXXXX600
VERSION 1211
MATREF =0
FLUREF =0
RATING 6000000000000.000
LINETYPE NULL
BSPEC =0
BLTM 'NEW'

This should be a CL600 specification

The file, in this state, will also not load back into SPECON with the rating line included.

I'm presuming that some setting is missing that converts units.

Any ideas where I should be looking?

Thanks in advance

On Modify specification tab, can you check CAD Attributes.

Usually If my rating is 150 in Spec out it is coming as 150.000

Pretty much the first item I checked. Within CAD attributes the rating was 6000000000000.000 so I changed it to 600.

Feeling very smug I then went into Speconmode and it was as above. Went back into CAD attributes and that had updated to 6000000000000.000 on its own.

I'm thinking there is some function that determines all units.

com-format-dflts.pmldat

Thank you Deva.

While editing that file may very well provide a solution I am wondering why the behaviour of specon is so unusual. I've not come across this before and rather than edit something to cover up the unusual behaviour I would be more interested in finding out why.

May try to delete userfolders, which will remove temporary settings and load the PDMS Default settings.

Or

Specon output mode is very old, now we can perform all specification related tasks in Paragon module, we can go with new method.

i'll go with the new method when it's better ;)

There are some things I like about paragon spec entry but the ability to build tables and sprefs using macros and spreadsheets is far superior to anything I've yet seen in paragon.

You can customize paragon using PML/C#, to auto generate needed tables from any source :excitement: