topic Re: Showing fractions in Filename Fields in AutoCAD Forum

Showing fractions in Filename Fields

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:32:24 GMT

Is there a way to display fractions in the Filename Field?

I have a drawing named 3/4"-P-110123-SPEC-N and the field displays as 3_4-P-110123-SPEC-N.

Is there a setting I can change to get the Field to display as 0.75-P-110123-SPEC-N or 3/4-P-110123-SPEC-N?

Re: Showing fractions in Filename Fields

ben.saa — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:11:52 GMT

Hi,

0.75-P-110123-SPEC-N Can be use as filename but not 3/4-P-110123-SPEC-N? as 3/ means folder directory 3

Re: Showing fractions in Filename Fields

jrsimmons4 — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:41:50 GMT

As ben.saa alluded to in their post, it is a Windows file system limitation that does not allow forward or back slashes in file names. Forward and back slashes are used to differentiate folder levels and therefore cannot be used in file names.

Ex: C:\Program Files\Autodesk .....

As to the other part of your question, I do not know of a setting that will convert 3/4 to 0.75 in a filename, sorry.

Re: Showing fractions in Filename Fields

cwr-pae — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:33:28 GMT

You can't use a \ or / in a file name because they are used by the operating system's (windows for sure, MacApple and Unix also I think) file organization. You can use two single quotes (') as the inch symbol where double quotes aren't allowed. You can use the unicode \U+2215 for a / in ACad where otherwise the the / isn't allowed (in SSM and fields at least) but when saving or printing to a file you get an ampersand (&) if I remember correctly.