Handling of Units in Annotations

With the release of AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12.1, some changes and enhancements have been made to the handling of Units.

In AVEVA Diagrams changes have been made to accommodate the new functionality and to allow presentation of values with or without units in shape text and annotations.

Some attributes with numeric values are now dimensioned and have associated units. For example, attribute PRESS of element of type SCPLIN currently has a dimension of type "pressure" and can have units of pressure (psi, bar, ). All attributes that are dimensioned have current session units.

If the current session unit for the dimension of pressure is psi, and the value of the attribute PRESS is 23psi, one can use [scplin.press] to use the value of the attribute in annotation: this will produce the value of the attribute in the current units - "23". If the units are desired, the ".withunit" keyword can be used - [scplin.press.withunit] will give the result in the annotation text as "23psi".

The following screenshot shows annotation where the ".withunit" keyword is used:

This shows the same annotation without using the ".withunit" keyword:

For More Information

Refer to User Guide Schematics / Diagrams / Appendices / Attribute Presentation Notation.

Affected Programs

AVEVA Diagrams