Oh, now I feel a bit silly. I found the following line (copy / paste)
from the Inventor help under Edit Box Reference:
sin(pi/4 rad) or (0.5 * base * height)
Notice that it shows "pi" not "PI". Doh!
Just for grins, here is VB's method for pi:
Dim pi
pi = 4 * Atn(1)
Thanks, that did it.
Cory McConnell wrote:
>I just used it yesterday - didn't get the error. But I used PI*D
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>Cory McConnell
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>>Is it just me or is pi no longer working in parameters? If I remember
>>correctly, you could enter a formula like:
>> pi * Dia and get a circumfrence. When I do that now, I get the "Unable
>>to parser equation" message, the table re-sizes and the edits I made the
>>the parameter are lost.
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