UnitsManager.formatValue Method

Description

Given a floating point number this method evaulates it as a value of a specific unit type and returns an appropriate string. By default, the current unit settings defined in the user preferences is used, but you can set the method arguments to override the defaults to specify the formatting you want. The input value always uses internal units, which are centimeters for length, radians for angles, and mass is in kilograms.

This method is useful whenever you have a value you've gotten from Fusion or computed on your own and need to display it to the user as a string. This method does the conversion and also takes into account the units and the formatting the user has specified in their preferences.

Below are some examples of various formatting where the user preferences for general precision is four decimal places, and the angular precision is one decimal place. Also, trailing zeros are set to be hidden and the minimum precision is two decimal places when trailing zeros are turned off. The design units are specified to be "inch".

Here, only the value is supplied and the default is to assume the units are the current design length unit and use the preference settings to format it so there are four decimal places shown and the unit name is included. formatValue(1.5) -> "0.5906 in"

In this example, an angle is specified by using "deg" as the unit, and the result showing one decimal place, which is what's defined in the user preference, and it shows the unit name. formatValue(0.7853981633974483096, "deg") -> "45.0 deg"

This example converts the input value of 1.5 cm to mm where eight decimal places are shown, trailing zeros are shown, and the unit name is shown. The fourth argument of minimum precision is ignored, since it is only used when showTrailing zeros is False. formatValue(1.5, "mm", 8, BooleanOptions.TrueBooleanOption, 0, True) - > "15.00000000 mm"

Syntax

# Uses no optional arguments.
returnValue = unitsManager_var.formatValue(value)

# Uses optional arguments.
returnValue = unitsManager_var.formatValue(value, units, precision, showTrailingZeros, minimumPrecision, showUnits)

#include <Core/Application/UnitsManager.h>

// Uses no optional arguments.
returnValue = unitsManager_var->formatValue(value);

// Uses optional arguments.
returnValue = unitsManager_var->formatValue(value, units, precision, showTrailingZeros, minimumPrecision, showUnits);

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