Unit t (ton) (1000kg)

[Cris-Ideas]

HI,

Is there a way to use unit of 1 ton or 1000 kg in parameters?

Cris.

[-niels-]

Not sure if this works, but maybe you could use it by adding the prefix "Mega" to "gram" for the unit type?

[Cris-Ideas]

Will try.

This will probably work to get the proper value, but unit of Mg will be totally impossible to understand for "the client" so will most likely need to add unit strings be hard coding them in the text.

For now I just went with ul and / 1000 value in kg.

Cris.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Cris,

Unfortunately, "ton" isn't a supported unit. But, "kg" is. Here is a hack that I am not proud of showing it. It works anyway. In the unit, type in "kg^2/g" and you will get the equivalent of ton.

As I said, it is a hack. The unit makes math sense but it does not look nice in real world.

Many thanks!

[-niels-]

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@Cris-Ideas wrote:

...but unit of Mg will be totally impossible to understand for "the client"...

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Lol, yeah... i had that too.

It's like:

 "Wow, lifting a 10 Megagram truck!" instead of "Wow, lifting a 10 ton truck!"

It just sounds weird and confusing. 😆

[Cris-Ideas]

On a side note,

I have seen once in a presentation for some conference, that they have given total cargo transported by rail in a year in Tg  (tera grams). Which of course made it totally impossible to get anyone's head around how much this actually is.

Cris.