Tip of the Week May 8

Solid Edge Tip of the Week May 8, 2015 Solid Edge - Disabling Mass Units in Parts List In this week's Ally PLM Tip of the Week we will show how easily you can disable the mass units in the Parts List column. 1)  After placing the initial Parts List, open up the Parts List Properties and go to the Columns Tab. 2)  Then add the Mass properties to your columns using the Add Column button:

3)  The added Mass column will include units by default in the Parts list: 

4)  With the Mass column selected look at the Property text near the bottom of the window: 

5)  Here you will change the property text to  %{Mass (Item)/NU|G}  as shown below:

6)  Hit Apply and you will notice that the Mass column will no longer include mass units: 

7)  This information as well as similar formatting codes can be found in the Solid Edge Help at the link below:  https://docs.plm.automation.siemens.com/tdoc/se/107/help/#uid:index_annotations:xid280274:prptxt4a

Nathan Pfeiffer

Application Engineer

Ally PLM Solutions, Inc.

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