The function you are looking for in Inventor is
isolate(Number;SourceType;DestType)
In example, you want to have a linear dimension respond to a degree
rotation. Assume d1 is the angle in degrees and for one revolution of
d1, you want d2 to increase by 36 mm
isolate (d1;deg;ul) /10 ul * 1 mm (or something like that ).
Makes a bit more sense when you are changing betweens systems of
measurement which have no correlation at all (deg -> mm)
AutoCOL wrote:
>and you wonder why they taught you about the dimensions of equations in
>school huh? it was so you could figure out how you have to manipulate your
>results from equations in inventor to get it in the units you want!
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>surely there should be an option to over-ride the resultant dimensions of an
>equation with the units you've selected for the parameter in question?
>that's how i'd like it to work. say for example you have two lengths and you
>want another value (also a length, for me that's mm) to be the result of a
>division of the first two.
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>so your equation is d3 = d1 / d2 but this won't work because the result of
>the right hand side of that equation is unitless, so you have to multiply it
>by 1mm to get the right answer. i think that's silly and we should just be
>able to over-ride the dimensions of the result (in this case ul) with the
>selected dimensions of the parameter (in this case d3, and millimetres...)
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>*end rant*
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